Fontána v1.1
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Fontána (or Fontana) is a bitmap font editor designed for the DOS operating system. It allows you to open, create, edit, and combine a wide range of bitmap font formats. In addition, it supports importing from selected vector formats such as CHR and TTF.

Fontana is compatible with several Unicode-based formats (BDF, TTF, FU) as well as code page based formats (VGA hardware fonts, FN, FNT, V8F, CHR). It also supports multi-font container formats like CPI, FON (used in early Microsoft Windows), and the WFV/WFN formats used in the Wokna32 GUI system.

Thanks to this wide range of supported formats, you can define fonts in both proportional and monospaced modes.

Fontana offers a sophisticated and user-friendly interface. Up to four font files can be opened at the same time, with the ability to transfer characters between them easily. An advanced feature is real-time testing of the font directly in the editing window.
Fontana also includes a "Character Information" panel for Unicode fonts. With a single keypress, you can view the name of any character (e.g. “Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe”) and the Unicode block it belongs to (e.g. “Cyrillic”). This makes working with multilingual and symbol-rich fonts much easier.
A unique strength of Fontana is its group operations feature. This allows batch transformations to be applied to multiple characters at once — for example:
Increase character width by 1 pixel for all characters from code 32 to 255.
Shift all glyphs in a selected range 3 pixels upwards.
This dramatically speeds up repetitive editing tasks and makes bulk font adjustments efficient and precise.


Special notes:
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1) Fontana as text mode font loader
If you call Fontana with parameter "/T" it will start not in graphic user interface but it remains in text mode and loads the specified font in FV format for VGA character generator. This font remains active until next video mode change so it is not a TSR module and does not occupy any memory. It is easy way how to temporary load fonts in different code pages so you can use it as a quick russificator or similar.
Example: FONTANA /T:cyrillic.fv

It this mode fontana does not change any parameter of the text mode. So it is user's responsibility to load compatible font with current text mode. (f.e. 8x16 font to 25 lines mode but not to 50 lines mode)


Changelog:
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1.1   
+ possibility to load the edited font into VGA character generator when 
  shelling to DOS
+ Fontana can be now used also as command line utility which loads
  text mode VGA font. See the /T parameter
+ supports FNT subformat used in libraries GRX, MGRX and Allegro
- improved conversion of the proportional fonts into DOS (FV) format
- better handling of fonts with undefined characters
- button "Create" sometimes didn't work


1.0
the first release

Created by Laaca
Laaca@seznam.cz
http://www.laaca.borec.cz/blocek (English)
http://www.laaca.borec.cz (Czech)