POLFED32.EXE (43)

Bitmap screen font editor for DOS text-mode fonts.

Opens and saves a simple bitmap format: depending on file extension, each glyph is 8 (.CGA), 14 (.EGA), 16 (.VGA), 20 (.XGA) pixels (lines/bytes) tall, and 8 pixels (1 byte/8 bits) wide. Has 4 built-in clipboard buffers for copy-paste, allows glyph shifting and mirroring, has a pattern-making function, and a really primitive UI.

I wrote the editor in 1994 because I thought I needed a Cyrillic font for my DOS. I didn’t have one, so I decided to make such a Cyrillic DOS font myself. Since I didn’t have a suitable editor, I wrote one. Once I finished writing the editor, I no longer needed the Cyrillic font, so I never made any single font with the app. I’m publishing the app here for no other reason than my vanity and nostalgia. :)

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Usage:

POLFED32.EXE INPUT.EXT [OUTPUT.EXT]

Example:

POLFED32.EXE DOSFONT.VGA DOSFONT1.VGA

For historical purposes, it also contains an older version POLFED16.EXE which is written in Visual Basic for DOS and runs in DOS mode only (that version does not accept commandline arguments but displays a “fancy” UI for opening and saving files instead).