Representing character information in a compressed bitmap font

[bengR]

I am creating a custom compressed bitmap font (class 2) and I need some clarification as to how the character data is represented.

Assuming the following character:
width - 8
height - 8

binary character data:

01000001
01000001
01000001
01000001
01000001
01000001
01000001
01000001

After compression, the character data should be the following string, correct?
(Values are decimal)

8 1 1 5 1

If the above string is correct, how should it be represented in the PCL file?
Is it just the ASCII character that corresponds with the ordinal value of each byte in the string?
e.g.:

char(8).char(1).char(1).char(5).char(1)

Thank you for your time

 

[DansDadUK]

I think that the line repetition count is the number of times that the row is repeated AFTER the first occurrence.

So your raster data would require the following bytes (shown in hexadecimal representation):

0x0701010501

How you populate the array depends on the language you are using, and its syntax.

For example, with C#, 'char' is a 16-bit object (representing a Unicode code-point), so you'd instead probably use 'byte' arrays.

 

[bengR]

Thanks Dan.