TO: everyone
FROM: Roger Burrows, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
DATE: September 1986
SUBJ: creation of fonts for Bradford

  This is an add-on program for Bradford 1.20, the near letter quality program
written by Aaron Contorer and distributed to bulletin boards as "freeware".
Aaron has so far released:
	BRADFORD.LBR	which contains the Bradford program and various fonts
			in a binary form as FONTx.BIN
	BRADCON.LBR	which contains more binary fonts; Bradcon, a program
			which may be used to create binary fonts from source
			in human-readable form; and the source code for Font 1

  I am now releasing the BRADFONT program and placing it in the public domain
in order to help those who would like to take an existing font and modify it
slightly.  Bradfont "disassembles" Bradford binary font files (.BIN files) and
creates the corresponding source.  This source, if run through Bradcon, will
recreate the original .BIN file (try it and verify it).

  Once you have the source that corresponds to the existing binary font,
modification should be a lot easier.  Of course, you need both Bradford and
Bradcon to make use of Bradfont.

  This package is being released in a .LBR file with three members:
	BRADFONT.COM	compiled program
	BRADFONT.CQ	squeezed C source code, for compilation with the
			BDS C compiler (v1.5)
	BRADFORD.DQC	this squeezed documentation file

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How to use Bradfont
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  Bradfont reads the font file (FONTx.BIN) as binary information and creates
the source code for a font in the form of a text file, which will have the
name FONTxB (the x in the two file names will be the same).  See the Bradcon
writeup for a description of the format of the source code.

  The binary file must be in the currently logged drive and directory (or
area) before you run Bradfont, and it will output the source file in the same
directory or area.  So if your file were on drive B and Bradfont were on
drive A, you might do the following:
     A>b:
     B>a:bradfont f
in order to convert FONTF.BIN to FONTFB.

  As you can see from the above example, the number (or letter) of the font
to be converted is passed to Bradfont as an argument on the command line.
Font conversion does not take very long; in tests on my hard disk system,
it took 15 seconds (about the same time that Bradcon takes to do the reverse
process).