Creation of deffont.bmp

[jpcima]

Hi. The default bitmap font for cp437 has a mention about being generated from bdf fonts.
Is the program which generates this source readily available somewhere?
I would like to generate such bitmaps for different codepages.

[wmcbrine]

I honestly have no memory of exactly how I built that file eleven years ago. :) But, you should look at the "sdlfonts" package. There are fonts for other code pages included there:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdcurses/files/sdlfonts/1.0/

For a more modern approach, consider the new TTF capability.

[jpcima]

For a more modern approach, consider the new TTF capability.

I like the esthetic of bitmap font vs TTF rendering. Considering there was an update about TTF just recently, I should recheck if the rendering has improved in a way I like.

Now I have written a variant of the tool bdf2bmp to output BMP files in an adequate format, and it has almost identical output with just few bytes of difference.

[dylanetaft]

Still relevant and works for what is now called pdcfont.bmp. Your variant of the tool still works.