On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:19 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Anthony W.Henry wrote: > > > I really don't have to worry about the few Kilobytes > > it will add to the program file :). Anyone know any good > > GPL'd or Public Domain bit fonts ? > > Remember that you can easily preprocess it with RLL. I'd expect a bitmap > fount > to be very compressible. >
[snip] > One thing I'd add is that using Delphi it's possible (although not trivial) > to > embed a .fon as a resource in an executable. I don't know the extent to which > this can be done using (in particular) Lazarus on Windows or on Linux. > I imagine the easiest way is bin2obj and just make it a constant array in the program. :) That is a useful trick and much easier then resources. (I most recently used it to make a bitmap CGI hit counter. the Digit jpg's where all stored as Const arrays of byte and the CGI recursively called itself. Anthony _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal