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Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen

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On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 12:14:34 PM UTC-6, Mark Lemmert wrote:
> On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 10:43:31 AM UTC-6, qkumba wrote:
> > You'll need to draw the entire character yourself, using font data that you define, point by point, line by line.  There was another thread about this recently, but I don't have the title in front of me to point you there.
> 
> Thanks for your reply!
> 
> I figured that was the worst case scenario. Doable, but wanted to make sure I wasn't reinventing the wheel.
> 
> The impression I got from the posts in this forum in the 1990s was that other people did develop the shape tables for custom fonts, but the specific data be lost to history.
> 
> If anyone has any idea where to get such data, I'd be very grateful. If I end up creating shape tables myself, I'll post the info in this thread.


If you do a search in groups.google.com, you will find that this question is verging on over-kill.

All your questions are answered in other threads.  The best way to find them is to do a search for "hi res character graphics" in groups.google.com.  Pretty much anything you do on an Apple computer IS re-inventing the wheel.

Here is a start.  This thread lists 3 different hi-res character generators.
And a couple of font editors are listed as well.  The main one most programmers use is, the Apple Toolkit HRCG (Hi-res character generator) that includes about 20 defined fonts.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!searchin/comp.sys.apple2.programmer/character$20hi$20res/comp.sys.apple2.programmer/ZL9lL8WSJRI/sMaBpdmqINEJ

If you are looking more to understand how fonts are displayed on the hires screen, and not just displaying them, then you will need to read up on how the hires screen is laid out and how it displays images.  There are lots of good graphics books published in this area that are online.

Your best sources for documents, programming, utilities and games is Asimov.  This link has a couple of others including the Apple II Documentation Project and Asimov.

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/

Happy reading.  :)

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Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 07:55 -0800
  Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 08:43 -0800
    Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 10:14 -0800
      Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2015-11-29 11:08 -0800
        Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 21:46 -0800
    Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen denisbytezone@gmail.com - 2015-11-29 18:49 -0800
      Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 21:48 -0800
        Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Chris Torrence <gorthmog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 08:55 -0800
          Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-11-30 17:22 +0000
          Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 14:05 -0800
  Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-09 13:41 -0800
    Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-09 18:28 -0800
      Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-10 10:31 -0600
        Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-10 10:09 -0800
        Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-10 21:57 -0800
          Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Kevin Dady <osgeld@cheesefactory.us> - 2016-01-11 06:34 -0800
            Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-16 07:25 -0800
              Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-01-16 11:24 -0600
              Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen mmphosis <mmphosis@macgui.com> - 2016-01-17 17:54 +0000
                Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-18 09:45 -0800
          Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-11 23:01 -0600
            Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-12 18:57 -0800
  Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen michael.pohoreski@gmail.com - 2016-01-15 14:08 -0800

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