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Hi!

On 4/3/07, Scott Dattalo <scott@dattalo.com> wrote:
>
> That's sort of the approach I planned to take. The "rendering" part is
> the challenge. I thought the TeX/METAFONT approach would be the most
> versatile, however I still haven't figured out how to render a font to a
> particular size.

I would suggest using The Gimp to render the fonts to a properly sized image,
saving it as a C file (it's in the export image formats). Then, this can be
processed easily.

You can experiment with the hinting options and select different fonts.
Also, you can alter individual characters by hand before the export.

> In the approach you suggest, I think you want to render
> the characters to a 1-bit depth but at twice the desired resolution,
> instead of 4 times. The total number of bits for the character is 5*7*4=
> 140 = 10*14*1. At 4 times, the total number is 20*28*1 = 560.

Without hinting, the result will not be good, specially at such low resolutions.

I tried with the font "Andale Mono", you can see the result here
(characters cells are 6x8 pixels, each character is smaller).

    Daniel.

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