> Apptech didn't 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.

But did wrote:

>> Crude and effective extension of the above:

Scott did wrote:

> I hope you guys are not serious. There are literally 
> thousands of examples
> of fonts on the web. Why create another? And if so, why 
> not use a program
> designed for editing bitmaps? There are dozens of those.

I was serious to the extent that what I offered was a useful 
and direct extension of what was being discussed. I've never 
used Excel as a font bit mapper, but I have created patterns 
for various purposes both in a spread sheet and for external 
use, using the method that I described. There are almost 
certainly dozens of ways to more elegantly do any of the 
things that you could do that way. But as a bottom end way 
of manually controlling coloured arbitrary bits on a bitmap 
pattern it does work and is accessible to many.


    Russell

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