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Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 01.01.2025, 03:16

> My font editor Kasmar (read "Kashmaar") is definitely not new but in the
> last months am I trying to modify it to more ambicious program.
> It is still very alpha, lot of things is not done and something is broken,
> however.
> Over older versions this build can:
> - open bitmap font files in Microsoft FNT, BDF, FN (czech diskmags), FU
> (proprietal format) and VGA font formats
> - open font containers in Microsoft FON, CPI (MSDOS, DRDOS, WinNT
> subformats), CPX (from FreeDOS) and WFN and WFV (proprietal but very
> simple formats)
> - import from vector Borland CHT fonts
> - save into VGA, FN, FU
> - writting with edited font
> - many oher features
>
> First plans are:
> - add loader for vector TTF fonts
> - saving to FNT and BDF formats
> - finalize support for X-offsets and Y-ofsets of font bitmaps (now works
> partialy)
>
> The download link:
> here
>
> ...and I am considering to rename the project to "Fontána"
For some unknown reason, this font editor, and also your word processor loads and then becomes totally unresponsive on my systems. Same behavior in both programs. Have been unable to troubleshoot, but do your programs do anything strange with memory (use > 64M XMS or require / use EMS)? Using DOS 7.1, with a 64M ramdisk, regular HIMEM.SYS. Same behavior with JEMM386 also.

Your blocek editor worked fine at one time, back around two years ago, has been broken ever since. A hard freeze doesn't occur, the mouse pointer and keyboard just do nothing, all error-trapping is absent (CTRL-BREAK, ctrl C dont exit), and no fault or error code is generated. The programs load fine, then just go into netherworld of not responding to any input.

Complete thread:

• Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Laaca, 24.11.2024, 13:30 (Announce)
  • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - RayeR, 14.12.2024, 22:56
    • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Rugxulo, 15.12.2024, 01:06
      • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Laaca, 17.12.2024, 22:42
        • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - RayeR, 18.12.2024, 01:43
          • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Laaca, 18.12.2024, 17:33
            • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - RayeR, 22.12.2024, 01:40
        • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Rugxulo, 18.12.2024, 04:45
      • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - marcov, 18.12.2024, 11:04
  • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Zyzzle, 01.01.2025, 03:16
    • Work-in-progress build of font editor Kasmar - Laaca, 01.01.2025, 13:18