> On Jun 7, 2025, at 8:01 PM, Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel 
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> Fontana v1.0
> --------------------------------
> Fontána (or Fontana) is a bitmap font editor designed for the DOS operating 
> system. It allows you to open, create, edit, and combine a wide range of 
> bitmap font formats. In addition, it supports importing from selected vector 
> formats such as CHR and TTF.
> 
> Fontana is compatible with several Unicode-based formats (BDF, TTF, FU) as 
> well as code page based formats (VGA hardware fonts, FN, FNT, V8F, CHR). It 
> also supports multi-font container formats like CPI, FON (used in early 
> Microsoft Windows), and the WFV/WFN formats used in the Wokna32 GUI system.
> 
> Thanks to this wide range of supported formats, you can define fonts in both 
> proportional and monospaced modes.
> 
> Fontana offers a refined and user-friendly interface. Up to four font files 
> can be opened at the same time, with the ability to transfer characters 
> between them easily. An advanced feature is real-time testing of the font 
> directly in the editing window.
> Fontana also includes a "Character Information" panel for Unicode fonts. With 
> a single keypress, you can view the name of any character (e.g. “Cyrillic 
> Capital Letter Zhe”) and the Unicode block it belongs to (e.g. “Cyrillic”). 
> This makes working with multilingual and symbol-rich fonts much easier.
> A unique strength of Fontana is its group operations feature. This allows 
> batch transformations to be applied to multiple characters at once — for 
> example:
> Increase character width by 1 pixel for all characters from code 32 to 255.
> Shift all glyphs in a selected range 3 pixels upwards.
> This dramatically speeds up repetitive editing tasks and makes bulk font 
> adjustments efficient and precise.

Looks great. Very nice. :-)

Just to let your know…  I did not try all of the URLs. But, the 8.3 sources and 
VenomGFX for Fontána return 404s. 


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