gah- re-writing this coz ntl are $%*$%$%s :)
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Anyway - I have thought about bitmap fnts, and they do seem to be recommended a lot here. Of course, they look better, can be multi-coloured etc etc but, aren't they slow?
I assume (maybe wrongly) that they work by having an image containing your preferred alphabet of characters, then you select the correct one by selecting the 'frame' of the bitmap as read from a string(?)
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Anyway - I have thought about bitmap fnts, and they do seem to be recommended a lot here. Of course, they look better, can be multi-coloured etc etc but, aren't they slow?
I assume (maybe wrongly) that they work by having an image containing your preferred alphabet of characters, then you select the correct one by selecting the 'frame' of the bitmap as read from a string(?)