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<html> <head> <title>Font Builder</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#fff4e6" text="black" style="font-family:sans-serif"> <h2>Font Builder</h2> <h3>Usage</h3> <ol> <li>Choose a <i>primary font</i>, which will be used for as much as it can be used for. <li>Optionally, choose a different <i>secondary font</i> which is used when the primary font is missing certain characters - for example, Trebuchet doesn't include any Greek/Cyrillic/Hebrew characters, so these will be taken from Arial Unicode MS (by default) instead. <li>Use the <i>Preview font</i> button to see what the font looks like by rendering the contents of the textbox. Adjust the font settings until perfection is attained. <li>Choose a desired <i>character list</i> - a text file containing all the characters that must be in the final font. The standard files are <tt>latin.txt</tt> (containing ASCII plus some accented characters, mainly useful for non-localised text) and <tt>standard.txt</tt> (containing Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew characters, for text that could be in any language). <li>Click <i>Generate texture</i>, and select a name for the <tt>.fnt</tt> file. A <tt>.tga</tt> texture will also be generated, in the same directory with the same name. Depending on several random coincidences, the texture generation might be very fast or might take quite a while. When it finishes, the excitingly patterned texture will be displayed. <li>Save your settings through the <i>File</i> menu so that you can easily recreate the font later. </ol> <h3>Unicode fonts</h3> <p> The font builder is intended to be used with Unicode characters. Unfortunately, most fonts aren't. The font builder tries to use <i>Arial Unicode MS</i> by default: this seems to be installed by some versions of Microsoft Office, or can be downloaded from locations such as <a href="http://wildfiregames.com/~code/libraries/fonts/arialuni.exe">this</a> (12MB self-extracting 7-Zip). It's probably worth getting, since it includes almost every Unicode glyph that you could wish for. </p><p> Another potentially useful Unicode font is Bitstream Cyberbit (available from <a href="ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberbit.ZIP">Netscape's FTP server</a>, 6MB). </p><p> All fonts must be installed into Windows before you can use them in the font builder. </p> <h3>Font settings</h3> <ul> <li><b>Size</b> - size of the font in arbitrary units. <li><b>Boldness</b> - if you don't have a proper bold variation of the font, the boldness setting fakes it by drawing the character several times. <li><b>Italicness</b> - if you don't have a proper italic variaton, the italicness setting slants it in 5-degree increments. Negative values slant the other way. <li><b>Tracking</b> - extra spacing in pixels added between every non-zero-width glyph. <li><b>Leading</b> - extra spacing in pixels between lines of text. </ul> </body> </html>