Re: Lisa Fonts

On Apr 7, 6:19 pm, "Rebecca Bettencourt" <beckie..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 10:15 am, Ray Arachelian <r..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> > Not me, sorry. I'd imagine researching the original Mac's font storage
> > mechanism might help as the Lisa fonts are likely stored in a similar way.
>
> This is what I've been going on, and so far it has helped decode the
> font metrics (that information is stored exactly identically), but not
> the font bitmap itself.

A Mac FONT resource 'strike' is an *uncompressed* bitmap with each glyph packed left to right, so that could be a dead end.

However, you might look for signs of the simple RLE PackBits algorithm (which was in the first Mac ROM, not sure if the Lisa system software used it).

> ...

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. Received on 2015-07-15 16:37:14