[Cuis] Fixed-Width Font

[Dan Norton]

When the glyphs for the Cuis default font (DejaVu) or those for DejaVu Sans are filed out and 
then examined using Paint, it is obvious that they are of much higher quality than those 
produced by ImageMagick. The height is exactly right, as can be seen at ascii 129, 132, and 
133. They are the right size and crisp when displayed. This is the quality we should have for a 
fixed-width font. How were these .bmp files produced?

On 25 Jul 2015 at 21:41, Dan Norton wrote:

> Attached is a StrikeFont of Courier New 12. It's hacked - not
> polished by any means. It was 
> made by:
> 
> Making "characters.txt" by printing in a Cuis workspace, copying to
> Notepad, and saving with 
> encoding: ANSI.
> 
> This was input to ImageMagick to make a .png file.
> 
> The .png file was opened in Paint, then saved as a .bmp file.
> 
> The body of the .txt file was generated by:
> (32 to: 257) collect: [ :ascii | ascii-32 * 7 ]  "note the 257 -
> needed to avoid index out of range"
> 
> The first three numbers in .txt were finagled to 12 15 5 (the last
> two anyway).
> 
> The font was installed by running:
> StrikeFont installCourier.  "code in Courier.pck.st "
> 
> Text in the Text Editor pane was highlighted and the font changed to
> Courier 12 point. It 
> looked much too small. Going back to Paint, the glyphs were selected
> and stretched 
> vertically. The font was re-installed. The vertical distortion is
> probably obvious.
> 
> At least it's recognizable as Courier and it's fixed width. Files
> are attached.
> 
>  - Dan
> 
> Attachments:
>   C:\Cuis\CourierExample2.zip