Scott Dattalo wrote:
> Apptech wrote:
>   
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> Crude and effective extension of the above:
>>     
>
> I hope you guys are not serious. There are literally thousands of examples
> of fonts on the web.
And how many are there that 1: are clearly free from licensing 
restrictions 2: are in the particular size and style you want. And how 
hard is it to find those compared to knocking one up from scratch?
>  Why create another? And if so, why not use a program
> designed for editing bitmaps? There are dozens of those.
>
>   
There are but most suck for this kind of work.

*Few have the ability to show in multiple scales at once (you really 
want to see your work at both display size and a much larger editing 
size at the same time).
*Most give no help with going from the pixel pattern to constants for 
your code


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