10/11 pt monospaced fonts for System 6

[egrath]

Hi,

does anyone know if there exists a decent 10 or 11 pt monospaced font for use with System 6? The only fonts that I can find (and already have) are Monaco, Hell's Programmer and Courier, but they are just available in 9 and 12 pt.

As I'm doing some recreational programming on my Plus and my eyes are not getting better, 9 pt is too small and 12 pt is too big. So i would highly appreciate a 10 or 11 pt font.

Anyone aware of one?

With kind regards,
Egon

 

[volvo242gt]

Might be able to get that by installing the TrueType INIT and some TrueType monospaced fonts...

 

[gsteemso]

Scaled fonts can be a little sluggish on the older machines. That’s part of why fixed-size fonts stuck around as long as they did. I vaguely recall there was at least one (shareware?) utility back in the day that would generate a fixed-size strike based on a scalable font. Made things a lot more performant.

 

[egrath]

This tool sounds interesting. I'll take a look into it if I can find it and give it a try!
Thanks!

 

[Scott Baret]

I'm pretty sure old versions of MacInTax used to come with one called TaxType that was monospaced. Don't quote me 100% on it being monospaced but I do remember TaxType being installed.

It's a font specifically designed for tax forms and, without looking at my most recent tax return, I'm pretty sure everything on them is monospaced.

 

[egrath]

The tool @gsteemso mentioned is called "BitFont". It allows converting any font renderable on the system to be converted to a bitmap font. So it's best to run it on a system with installed true type capabilities.

 

[David Cook]

Attached are several monospace fonts (but only Courier has size 10) in a suitcase. Use Tiny Transfer or BinHex to convert back to Mac format.

BitFont is also attached.

BitFont Version 1.0 6/22/90 for MacHack '90

BitFont is a program which will create a bitmapped font from any font which can be drawn on your Macintosh. In addition to standard bitmapped fonts, it works with Adobe outline fonts when the Adobe Type Manager is installed, and also works with TrueType fonts in System 7. BitFont will also tell you how QuickDraw will draw a given font (bitmapped, ATM, or TrueType) and can create a text file describing a font and all its characters.

The fonts created by BitFont are stored in a Font/DA Mover file, and contain a single FOND resource for the font family, and an NFNT resource for the font. Using the NFNT resource type allows any style modifications that were selected in BitFont to be preserved.

The menu items in BitFont are standard, except for the items in the File menu:

Open Resource File:
This items causes the selected file to be opened, and any font resources it contains included in BitFont's Font menu. As a result, fonts can be used with BitFont which have not been installed in your system.

Show Font Info:
This shows technical information about the currently selected font as obtained from the Font Manger and the font resource. It also indicates whether the font is bitmapped, ATM, or TrueType .

Image Font:
This items causes all the characters in the font to be displayed on the screen, followed by information about bounding rectangle and maximum width BitMap computed for the font.

Create Data File:
This item creates a text file containing information about the currently selected font, followed by information for each character, including its bounding rectangle, width, and a grid showing its bit definition.

Create Bitmap Font:
This item creates a bitmapped font file using the currently selected font, point size, and style.

BitFont was written using MPW C version 3.1. It is in the public domain and may be freely distributed. Source code for BitFont is also available by contacting the author.

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[gsteemso]

Thanks for finding that, guys! I was a bit embarassed that I couldn't supply any hard information, just a vague memory. Good work turning it into something concrete!