1load_font(3) Allegro manual load_font(3)
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6 load_font - Loads a font from a file. Allegro game programming library.
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9 #include <allegro.h>
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12 FONT *load_font(const char *filename, RGB *pal, void *param);
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15 Loads a font from a file. At present, this supports loading fonts from
16 a GRX format .fnt file, a 8x8 or 8x16 BIOS format .fnt file, a datafile
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19 If the font contains palette information, then the palette is returned
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24 The third parameter can be used to pass specific information to a cus‐
25 tom loader routine. Normally, you can just leave this as NULL. Note
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38 textout_centre_ex(screen, myfont, "This is my own pretty font!",
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44 Returns a pointer to the font or NULL on error. Remember that you are
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51 load_bios_font(3), load_grx_font(3), load_grx_or_bios_font(3),
52 load_bitmap_font(3), load_txt_font(3), destroy_font(3), exfont(3)
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56Allegro version 4.4.3 load_font(3)