Difference: FontFormat (r2 vs. r1)

FNT Font File Format

FNT is a simple binary font format used by Rockbox. It is a fixed-size raster font format that supports unicode.

In (In this context a 'long' is intended to mean a 32 bit unit regardless of target architecture. architecture)

The FNT header is exactly 36 bytes long consisting of the following fields:

Field	length Length (bytes)	description Description
* UCHAR version[4]	4	magic number and version bytes (currently 'RB12')
* USHORT maxwidth	2	font max width in pixels
* USHORT height	2	font height in pixels
* USHORT ascent	2	font ascent (baseline) in pixels
* USHORT pad	2	unused, pad to 32-bit boundary
* ULONG firstchar	4	first character code in font
* ULONG defaultchar	4	default character code in font
* ULONG size	4	# characters in font
* ULONG nbits	4	# bytes imagebits data in file
* ULONG noffset	4	# longs offset data in file
* ULONG nwidth	4	# bytes width data in file

Field	Length (bytes)	Description
MWIMAGEBITS bits	nbits	image bits variable data
[MWIMAGEBITS padded to 16-bit boundary]
USHORT offset	noffset*2	offset variable data
UCHAR width	nwidth*1	width variable data

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r3 - 05 Mar 2011 - 18:38:23 - ThomasMartitz

Revision r2 - 03 Mar 2006 - 04:55 - BernardKethlayne
Revision r1 - 03 Mar 2006 - 04:01 - BernardKethlayne