PocketMatrix

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!

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.

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