TheDraw Fonts (TDF)

TheDraw fonts or tdf for short, are packages of graphical fonts created for use with TheDraw, an ANSI art program for MSDOS.

Synchronet can natively use these font packages in menus and other files without the need for an external program.

The .tdf files may contain a single and multiple fonts. They can be accessed by index number. If a font with a given index doesn't exist then the first font found will be used. Upto 34 fonts can exist in a single .tdf file but, in reality, that's not usually the case.

Please keep in mind the interface may to the library may change since this is a new feature.

'use strict';

// Load the tdf library
var tdf = load({}, "tdfonts_lib.js");

// Set various options (explained below)
opt = {
    justify: tdf.LEFT_JUSTIFY,
    width: tdf.DEFAULT_WIDTH,
    color: tdf.COLOR_ANSI, // Default to ANSI
    encoding: tdf.ENC_ANSI, // Default to ANSI
    random: false,
    info: false,
    index: 3
};

// Choose the font file
// These are installed in ctrl/tdfonts
fontfile = "voidx.tdf";

// Load in the font from the fontfile
var font = tdf.loadfont(fontfile);

// You can read the output into a variable to
// be manipulated later. You can pass a static
// string or a variable, of course.

var fontstr = tdf.output("TEST", font);
writeln(fontstr);

// Or you can just write out your text
// directly.
// tdf.output(mystr, font);

You can pass several options to tdfonts using the opt object.