pixel-fonts

I need a Windows-compatible, square pixel font

I'm looking for a square pixel font, preferably 8x8 pixels per character. I would like it to look something like this: I need more or less every character shown here, especially the box drawing ones. The very few Windows fonts I've found after about an hour of searching don't have very few (if any) extended characters. I'm currently ...

Combine several bitmaps into (TrueType) font

I have several (~200) small bitmap files with glyph images. How can I combine them to a single bitmap font file? Actually, I need a TrueType font created from these bitmaps (with no curves, smoothing, vectorization or any transformations). It's a designer 'pixel' font, so it should have rough pixel edges and so on. ...

What libraries are available to help create 2D Java games for phones?

I want to begin developing 2D Java games for phones (on J2ME) therefore I'd like to know if any libraries or "engines" exist to help out in the various graphical tasks: Drawing text with pixel fonts? Drawing bitmaps for sprites with multiple frames like animated GIFs? Drawing graphics with code, lines, beziers, flood-filling and gradie...

Make dialogs compatible with "large fonts".

Which do you think are best practices for making a windows dialog compatible both with standard fonts (96 dpi) and "large fonts" setting (120 dpi) so that objects don't overlap or get cut off? BTW: Just in case it's relevant, I'm interested in doing this for Delphi dialogs. Thanks in advance! ...