Mat99 on 9/12/2018 at 04:25

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I found this thread here:

topic: How To Use Telliamed's Thief Font Converter
(https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124320&highlight=parch+font+converter)

however the problem of mine is a little different. At short in points:

In generally I want to change gamma correction in my Books.pcx files lying in \Books\parch, \Books\parch2 and \Books\parch3. They are too bright for me, so:


1) when it is done - gamma decreased about 30%, file saved - problem appears with TextFont.fon
It contains antialiased font and levels of averaged pixels is now to high, so:

2) I converted TextFont.fon to *.bmp via Thief Font Converter,

3) Decreased gamma correction in this *.bmp (font file), and save it.

4) Goto again to Books.pcx and pull out color-palette to file *.PAL

5) Load this *.PAL collor-palette to BMP, and save file as standard Win Bitmap 256-colors.

6) Convert back new *.BMP (with 'darker' letters) again to *.FON via Thief Font Converter. Magenta colour is in it place 219, so the parameter -p 219 has been used.


and... shit happens ;P

Letters by itself are fine, but pixels which are responsible for an anti-alias are still to bright (like nothing happened), and moreover something very bad happened to Code-Page of font file, because instead of text I have something looks very similar to some ROT-xx algorithm which rolls CHR#s and there is one big mess in readables instead of text :P

TFC-help says that ONLY a CP850-Western-European character codes are supported. The point is I'm using FON file version with Polish characters and I bet this causes the problem. So, probably Thief Font Converter can't handle such kind of *.FON file?

Is there any other way?

But for now - forget about Code-Page - let's pretend I use standard (English) fonts:
All I want is my TextFont.fon works well/fine with darker 256-colors Books.pcx - that's it.

By 'fine' I mean: all characters must be visible in both languages at the same time and antialias grades should not affected too much or too little as it is for years in "patchedRES" folders after installing NewDark I believe? It looks awfull... :/ I need accurate font-look, as it is now in 70-shitty-color Book.pcx

There are my darkened Books.PCX, my DarkerFont.BMP and my TextFont.FON file, if only someone could do something with them to work properly :/

(https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lbrq45gbtzouof3/AADXSjxdw3EOijiluizOs16Ua?dl=0)