1fnts2fon(1)                        PSF Tools                       fnts2fon(1)
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NAME

6       fnts2fon - Construct a Windows .FON file from one or more .FNT files
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SYNOPSIS

9       fnts2fon  [--fontid=IDSTRING] [--winver=MAJOR.MINOR] [other options...]
10       INPUTFILE [INPUTFILE ...]  OUTPUTFILE

DESCRIPTION

12       fnts2fon attempts to combine one or more Windows FNT files into  a  FON
13       file.   This procedure is shrouded in darkness and mystery, dimly illu‐
14       minated by the Microsoft Knowledge Base article  <http://support.micro‐
15       soft.com/support/kb/articles/Q76/5/35.ASP> and the NE file format.
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17       If you are running fnts2fon in the Cygwin environment, you will need to
18       grant execute permission to the  resulting  .FON  file  using  chmod(1)
19       before Windows can use it.
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OPTIONS

22       Note  that apart from --fontid and possibly --winver, the other options
23       should not be necessary unless you are trying to produce  output  byte-
24       by-byte identical to an existing Windows font.
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26       --fontid="string"
27              Sets  the font resolution / description string. This is normally
28              formed "FONTRES nn,nn,nn : Description". It must  begin  FONTRES
29              for  Windows  3.x  and  9x to recognise the font. By default the
30              string used is "FONTRES 200,96,48 : <fontname> ".
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32       Under MS-DOS, use underlines to represent spaces - for example,
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35       --winver=MAJOR.MINOR
36              Sets the Windows version required in the output file. The  MAJOR
37              and  MINOR  are treated as separate numbers, so --winver=3.1 and
38              --winver=3.01 are the same, but --winver=3.1  and  --winver=3.10
39              are  different.  Windows  2.x and 3.0 still load fonts marked as
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43       --checksum16=nnn and --checksum32=nnn
44              Set the 16-bit checksum in the DOS header, and the 32-bit check‐
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50              Sets the message to display if the font is renamed to  .EXE  and
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59              Sets the increment to add to the resource ID.
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63              Set the version of the linker that supposedly created this file.
64              The same caveats apply as for --winver.
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68              Set the name of the program that  was  supposedly  assembled  to
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73              Sets the value in word 2 of the 'MZ' file header.
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75       --stub=nnn
76              Set the DOS stub to use. They all do exactly the same thing, but
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81              Mark font nnn as a system font.
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BUGS

84       Does not appear to work with vector .FNT files, only raster ones.
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SEE ALSO

87       cpi2psf(1), cpicomp(1), cpidcomp(1)
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AUTHOR

90       John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.
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92Version 1.0.8                    21 June, 2008                     fnts2fon(1)