> What does everyone else do when it comes to graphic LCD's?  are there any
> good cheap/free bitmap font generators or fonts available?  at this point
> I'm contemplating an 8x8 font, a 6x8, and some sort of bold font.

I had a similar problem on an LED display that required 10 x 16 pixels
fonts.  We also needed a way to add custom characters to unused character
codes for customer specials.

I put the font table into the program memory of the 16C66 that was also
controlling the LEDs directly.  The trick to the flexibility was keeping the
original font definition in a text file that is easily modified by humans.
Per character code, the font file contains an array of characters that are
either "-" or "*" to indicate which pixels are on for that character.  The
font "image" is therefore visible in the text editor, and can be modified
intuitively.  A font compiler reads this file and produces an MPASM include
file that is little more than a large pile of RETLW instructions.  Another
program was written that read the same font definition file and created an
image of each character font and its associated character code.  In other
words, the runtime font table and the documentation are both created
automatically from the same human-understandable font definition file.  This
scheme has worked out reasonably well.


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