Re: [Freedos-user] CPI editor 1.2b

[Rugxulo <ru...@gm...>]

Hi again,
  Just a few more minor comments.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Rowery na Księżycu
<row...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I made a CPI editor. Maybe it could be useful.
>
> It allows to edit the shape of the characters, remove or create fonts,
> remove or create codepages,.. It has a gui and can be controlled with the
> keyboard or mouse (if there is a mouse installed). It doesn't support *.cpx
> files yet
>
> download:
> http://baltixy.w.interia.pl/in05.zip
> http://baltixy.w.interia.pl/in05.htm

I don't know what tools others used previously (e.g. Henrique, the
resident expert). In my recent dabblings in fonts, I didn't mess with
.CPI files, only the raw bitmap font itself (in my case, 8x16 only,
aka CO80 80x25, aka 4096 bytes).

One particular tool that comes to mind re: CPI is BACHL's CPIFNT
(cpf01.zip, vaguely related to PG):

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/pg/libs/

The raw font format isn't very complicated, but a nice user editor
indeed makes things easier than editing raw bits (but see my
translation of Terminus into .ASM source, it's far from impossible to
manually edit).

http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/fonts/terminus.zip

I used Fonte (aka, 2L8) to create my own font, which is old freeware
(but no sources).

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/vga/2l8fe122.zip

You could also use and adapt FFE from Freemacs MULE (as by default it
only edits upper 128 extended chars; Turbo Pascal).

http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/mule/

(So, just for completeness, that's all I know.)