From: Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela_at_hut.fi)
Date: 2004-02-18 16:48:09
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:06:50AM -0500, William Levak wrote:
> Most computers today support either True Type or Postscript fonts.
> I was wondering whether it would be possible to create True Type or
> Postscript fonts of the various Commodore fonts.
As a matter of fact, this question came up on the Finnish Usenet discussion
group sfnet.atk.cbm on November 28, 2002. Someone had made a TrueType font
that contained the Commodore 64 bitmap font. The package is available at
http://bserra.free.fr/C64fonts.zip. When I checked it in 2002, it contained
three FON files (bitmapped Windows fonts) which I couldn't view, and one
TrueType font, which included some extraneous glyphs, such as Pac Man monsters
and computer manufacturer logos.
> Anyone have any idea as to what software would actually do something like
> this?
pfaedit and maybe an automatic bitmap to vector tracer. Some months ago, I
came across to an open source tracer on SourceForge.net. Unfortunately,
its name escapes me at the moment.
On a related note, does anyone know the name of the typeface used in labels
on Commodore equipment? Someone would like to have replacement labels made
for his newly acquired PET 2001.
Marko
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