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BDFfont is an open source programming library, released under the GNU Genral Public License. It is designed to in the development of code that requires the use of font in Bitmap format called BDF.
| Current version | v0.5 |
| Distribution licence | GNU Genral Public Licence |
| Latest news | LastNews |
| Development home | http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdffont |
| Project's tracker submission facility | Bug submission and feature request |
| CVS server | cvs.bdffont.souceforge.net or cvs.souceforge.net.bdffont |
| Project's documentation | (just a few lines below) |
| Copyright | © 2003 - TridenT at users.sourceforge.net |
Introduction
What-is-it ?
BDFfont is a library to handle BDF font (Bitmap Distribution Format file)
font with Delphi.
This library will solve the lack of support for bitmap font on MS-Windows.
A complete documentation and few examples are also available.
Get last revision at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdffont/
Project documentation
Here is an HTML document that describe all project interface.
please, do not distribute this file, see copyright ! It was just provided as
example.
You can have a look to other documents:
FAQ
FAQ for users
FAQ for developers
Administrative
Template for Release Announcement
Release procedures
More details
ScreenShot
Here is a screenshot of the main example :
ToDo
Add Assertion when loading file, with try/finally block
History
v0.5
New VCL example
* TBDF_Font.DrawText return now number of charthat can't be display (Feature
request 802397)
* Added TBDF_Font.BoundText to autosize a text (return Width and Height)
* Added a new example to work with BDFfont in VCL (Support Requests 797170)
v0.4
New storage method
* Glyphs are now all saved in one big BITMAP.
* Modified convertion to bitmap, now done when loading.
* Cleaned few functions
* BDF font can now be export to a BMP file (Feature request 799105)
* Assign space character when char is not present in the font (Tracker 796712)
* Draw a character to canvas not longer needs a bitmap convertion. It's as fast
as it can (tracker 798086)
v0.3
Feature added
* Added a progress message (percent loaded) when loading a font.
v0.2
Minor code improvements
* Added pixel space between character property.
* Added Transparency support. Should be always checked (true by default).
* Added 'const' keywords in parameters functions and procedures.
* Added a few comments for Glyph methods.
v0.1
Initial revision
* Added a program example that print strings with BDF font.
* Changed "unsafe" Data pointer by TMemoryStream.
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