Fonts

Allegro provides routines for loading fonts directly from GRX format .fnt files, 8x8 or 8x16 BIOS format .fnt files, from bitmap images, from datafiles or you can import a multiple-range Unicode font by writing a .txt script that specifies a number of different source files for each range of characters.

By default, Allegro can only use bitmapped (non-scalable) fonts. If you want to use TrueType fonts, you will need to use an add-on library which allows you to load them on the fly (like AllegTTF or Glyph Keeper, listed among others at http://www.allegro.cc/) and render them directly, or generate a bitmapped version of a TrueType font with tools like TTF2PCX (http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ttf2pcx/index.html).

register_font_file_type - Register a new font loading function.
load_font - Loads a font from a file.
destroy_font - Frees the memory being used by a font structure.
make_trans_font - Makes a font use transparency.
is_color_font - Returns TRUE if a font is a color font.
is_mono_font - Returns TRUE if a font is a monochrome font.
is_compatible_font - Check if two fonts are of the same type.
get_font_ranges - Returns the number of character ranges in a font.
get_font_range_begin - Returns the start of a character range in a font.
get_font_range_end - Returns the last character of a character range in a font.
extract_font_range - Extracts a range of characters from a font.
transpose_font - Transposes all characters in a font.
merge_fonts - Merges two fonts into one font.
load_dat_font - Loads a FONT from an Allegro datafile.
load_bios_font - Loads a 8x8 or 8x16 BIOS format font.
load_grx_font - Loads a GRX format font.
load_grx_or_bios_font - Loads either a BIOS or GRX format font.
load_bitmap_font - Grabs a font from a bitmap file.
grab_font_from_bitmap - Grabs a font from a bitmap
load_txt_font - Loads a font script.

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Fonts