fonts

[cottrelld]

Hi.

I was able to use the included tool to generate a font and import it into GAPIDraw. But none of the fonts I make are as nice as the system font!
I need the extra fonts to be able to fade out some text such as "+500" that goes up the screen and fades out. My question is, how did you get the system font to have the nice black border? Thanks!

[Johan]

If you use Photoshop it's quite easy:

(1) Create the font using Fontmaker. Set background to BLACK and font color WHITE.
(2) Start photoshop, create a new bitmap with the same size as the font bitmap. Load the Fontmaker font and paste it into a new ALPHA channel.
(3) Load the selection from the alpha channel. Set front color to black. Move the selection left one step. Press SHIFT+Backspace (fill) and press <enter>. Move selection two steps right and fill. Move selection left+up and fill. Move selection down twice and fill. Move selection up one step.
(4) Set front color to white and fill.

[Sheepy]

Why not use the expand selection option?

After you have the alpha channel as a selection mask,
- create 2 layers
- fill the one on top with white
- expand selection with 1 pixel
- fill the bottom with black
- merge the layers

[cottrelld]