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PhenixRising
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Posted: 01:05pm 09 Mar 2026

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Just a quick Thank You

Jim.

This is soooo awesome

I see what you mean about tidying up but you made it easy (a happy problem)

TassyJim

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Posted: 08:12pm 09 Mar 2026

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Glad you found it useful

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Posted: 01:15am 11 Mar 2026

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Yes a great program.

When I last used FontTweak a number of years ago, I wanted some largeish numbers (0-9) for the smaller display on the F4.
I had little success trying to get them to look good so I found the font I wanted from a drawing prog & printed the individual numbers out on A4 overhead transparency film. I then stuck them individually on the PC screen over the top of FontTweak & filled in the appropriate blanks.
Worked well. (I used "6" for both 6 & 9)

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Posted: 10:20am 11 Mar 2026

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Chopperp said Yes a great program.

When I last used FontTweak a number of years ago, I wanted some largeish numbers (0-9) for the smaller display on the F4.
I had little success trying to get them to look good so I found the font I wanted from a drawing prog & printed the individual numbers out on A4 overhead transparency film. I then stuck them individually on the PC screen over the top of FontTweak & filled in the appropriate blanks.
Worked well. (I used "6" for both 6 & 9)

Brian

So it's not just me who comes-up with wacky solutions

However, I think that I would use layers in Paint.Net or GIMP

Edit: might not work....I'll try it.
Edited 2026-03-11 20:22 by PhenixRising

phil99

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Posted: 11:40am 11 Mar 2026

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If the font you want is available in graphics type program scale the characters to the required size and save as BMP images.
If the font is in a program that doesn't save an image use Print Screen then edit in a graphics program.
Load the image into almost any version of MMBasic with a program to read the pixels and save to a DefineFont file, 4 pixels per Hex character.

PhenixRising
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Posted: 01:26pm 11 Mar 2026

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phil99 said
Load the image into almost any version of MMBasic with a program to read the pixels and save to a DefineFont file, 4 pixels per Hex character.

Hi Phil,

Do you mean; write a program or one that exists?

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Posted: 08:38pm 11 Mar 2026

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You will need to write it.
The first 8-digit hex word is the characteristics of the font. The 4 bytes are:-
Number of characters (95 for a full set, 10 for just numbers)
Starting ASCII character number (32 for a full set, 48 for just numbers)
Height (pixels, including space between lines)
Width (pixels, including space between characters)

The core FOR loop (there would be several nested for reading the lines of each character and for formatting the output file) could read the pixels and shift them into an integer (0 = 0, 1 = NOT 0). That would then be appended to a string as HEX$() characters. When the string reaches a suitable length it would be appended to the new file. Clear the string and repeat until done.

Edit.
See Embedded Fonts folder in firmware download. There is a program that converts UTFT fonts.

Quote All the fonts are the same as the fonts listed at http://www.rinkydinkelectronics.com/r_fonts.php
and it is worth visiting that web page to see examples of the character sets, etc.
Also included in the standard distribution of MMBasic is the program UTFTConv which can be
used to convert UTFT fonts on this web page to the format required by MMBasic. The program is
provided in two forms, a Windows EXE file (provided by Robert Severson) and an MMBasic
(.BAS) program which will run on the Maximite, Micromite Plus or the DOS version of MMBasic.

Edited 2026-03-12 17:00 by phil99

PhenixRising
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Posted: 09:35am 12 Mar 2026

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This is fun stuff

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