I/ve used Excell to generate fonts. Just set up an array of suitably
sized cells and place an "X" or an "8"etc.to fill in the pixel. It's
then pretty trivial to generate the numbers required for each
charecter.

Otherwise Atmels "AVR" studio  and the BASCOM IDE have sutable tools IIRC.

RP

2008/5/17 Scott Dattalo <scott@dattalo.com>:
> alan smith wrote:
>
>>   Is there anything like this out there?
>>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I don't know if there's anything out there for prototyping and/or
> evaluating fonts. I did something similar to what Harold describes.
> However, I used gimp to instantiate a particular font and then exported
> that to XPM. Then I wrote utilities to convert from XPM to PIC assembly.
> To take it one step further, I created gpsim simulation models for
> 128X64 graphics displays. This allowed me to rapidly evaluate the
> prototype fonts.
>
> Scott
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