Tony,

I have generated a couple of fonts and they can take up a lot of code space.
5 x 7 is quite compact but I have a 10x16 which is around 2K. Also created a
Rockwell style font at 16 x 32 which takes 80 bytes per character, I only
did 0 - 9.  They are stored in EEPROM as it is easy to recover, also it is
efficient use of space as it is 8 bit data.

Take a look at www.mdm1.bravepages.com and follow link to DMX973B, written
in JAL and C.

There is a character generator on Piclist from Nikolai Golovchenko.

Regards

ian

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Tony Harris
> Sent: 24 March 2003 00:42
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [PIC]: Graphic LCD's & text...?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm tinkering with a graphic LCD and am trying to come up with an
> efficient
> way to display text.
>
> there is no on-board character generator in the LCD controller.  I'm
> considering some sort of EPROM solution, but I'm not sure if this is the
> best route.
>
> 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.
>
> Any ideas / suggestions would be more then welcome.
>
> -Tony
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