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FON renderer
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<meta content="initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" name="viewport" />
<base href="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicolaslegland/2ace50f4bad628f6de67a97e03b0061c/raw/" />
<title>FON renderer</title>
<style>
@font-face
{
font-family: "Bm437_IBM_VGA_9x16.FON";
src: url("Px437_IBM_VGA_9x16.ttf") format("truetype");
}
pre
{
display: inline-block;
font-family: "Bm437_IBM_VGA_9x16.FON", monospace;
line-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
width: 79cw;
}
pre.fon
{
color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
position: relative;
}
pre.fon > canvas
{
height: 100%;
image-rendering: pixelated;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
z-index: -1;
}
pre.ttf
{
color: inherit;
}
pre.ttf > canvas
{
display: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>FON renderer in browser</h1>
<h2>Reference</h2>
<ul>
<li>Preview:&nbsp;<a href="https://gistpreview.github.io/?2ace50f4bad628f6de67a97e03b0061c">https://gistpreview.github.io/?2ace50f4bad628f6de67a97e03b0061c</a></li>
<li>Source:&nbsp;<a href="https://gist.github.com/nicolaslegland/2ace50f4bad628f6de67a97e03b0061c">https://gist.github.com/nicolaslegland/2ace50f4bad628f6de67a97e03b0061c</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Result</h2>
<label><input checked="checked" name="renderer" onchange="renderer.className='ttf';" type="radio" value="ttf" /> TTF</label>
<label><input name="renderer" onchange="renderer.className='fon';" type="radio" value="fon" /> FON</label>
<hr />
<pre class="ttf" id="renderer">
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</pre>
<hr />
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aa_example3.png">Aa_example3</a> using <a href="https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_9x16">IBM VGA 9x16</a>
<script>
const font_list = Array.from(document.fonts);
for (let font_index = 0; font_index < font_list.length; ++font_index)
{
const font_name = font_list[font_index].family.replaceAll('"', '');
if ('.fon' === font_name.substring(font_name.length - 4).toLowerCase())
{
load_fon(font_name);
}
}
function load_fon(file_name)
{
const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
request.onreadystatechange = function ()
{
if ((200 === this.status) && (4 === this.readyState))
{
const font_url = this.responseURL;
console.assert(font_url.substring(font_url.lastIndexOf('/') + 1) == file_name)
const font_data = parse_fon(this.response);
const pre_list = document.getElementsByTagName('pre');
for (let pre_index = 0; pre_index < pre_list.length; ++pre_index)
{
const pre_node = pre_list[pre_index];
if (window.getComputedStyle(pre_node).fontFamily.replaceAll('"', '').split(', ').includes(file_name))
{
render_pre(pre_node, font_data);
break;
}
}
}
};
request.open('GET', file_name, true);
request.send();
}
function parse_fon(data)
{
const buffer = new Uint8Array(data);
console.assert('MZ' === read_string(buffer, 0, 2), 'FON file is not a valid MZ file');
const ne_offset = read_u16_le(buffer, 0x3C);
console.assert('NE' === read_string(buffer, ne_offset, 2), 'FON file is not a valid NE file');
const table_offset = read_u16_le(buffer, ne_offset + 0x24) + ne_offset;
const table_shift = read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset);
console.assert(0x8007 == read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset + 2), 'FON file has unknown resource type');
console.assert(1 == read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset + 4), 'FON file has duplicate resources');
console.assert(0x8008 == read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset + 22), 'FON file has unknown resource type');
console.assert(1 == read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset + 24), 'FON file has duplicate resources');
const resource_offset = read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset + 30) << table_shift;
const resource_size = read_u16_le(buffer, table_offset + 32) << table_shift;
console.assert(table_offset <= resource_offset, 'FON file has out of bound resource');
console.assert(resource_offset < buffer.length, 'FON file has out of bound resource');
console.assert(resource_offset + resource_size < buffer.length, 'FON file has out of bound resource');
console.assert('Bm437 IBM VGA 9x16' === read_string(buffer, read_u16_le(buffer, resource_offset + 0x69) + resource_offset), 'FON file has unexpected name');
console.assert(0x200 === read_u16_le(buffer, resource_offset), 'FON file has an unknown version')
console.assert(0 === read_u16_le(buffer, resource_offset + 0x42), 'FON file is a vector font')
const font_height = read_u16_le(buffer, resource_offset + 0x58);
console.assert(16 === font_height, 'FON file has unexpected height');
const character_first = buffer[resource_offset + 0x5F];
const character_last = buffer[resource_offset + 0x60];
const font = {};
font['height'] = font_height;
const codepage = [0x0000, 0x0001, 0x0002, 0x0003, 0x0004, 0x0005, 0x0006, 0x0007, 0x0008, 0x0009, 0x000a, 0x000b, 0x000c, 0x000d, 0x000e, 0x000f, 0x0010, 0x0011, 0x0012, 0x0013, 0x0014, 0x0015, 0x0016, 0x0017, 0x0018, 0x0019, 0x001a, 0x001b, 0x001c, 0x001d, 0x001e, 0x001f, 0x0020, 0x0021, 0x0022, 0x0023, 0x0024, 0x0025, 0x0026, 0x0027, 0x0028, 0x0029, 0x002a, 0x002b, 0x002c, 0x002d, 0x002e, 0x002f, 0x0030, 0x0031, 0x0032, 0x0033, 0x0034, 0x0035, 0x0036, 0x0037, 0x0038, 0x0039, 0x003a, 0x003b, 0x003c, 0x003d, 0x003e, 0x003f, 0x0040, 0x0041, 0x0042, 0x0043, 0x0044, 0x0045, 0x0046, 0x0047, 0x0048, 0x0049, 0x004a, 0x004b, 0x004c, 0x004d, 0x004e, 0x004f, 0x0050, 0x0051, 0x0052, 0x0053, 0x0054, 0x0055, 0x0056, 0x0057, 0x0058, 0x0059, 0x005a, 0x005b, 0x005c, 0x005d, 0x005e, 0x005f, 0x0060, 0x0061, 0x0062, 0x0063, 0x0064, 0x0065, 0x0066, 0x0067, 0x0068, 0x0069, 0x006a, 0x006b, 0x006c, 0x006d, 0x006e, 0x006f, 0x0070, 0x0071, 0x0072, 0x0073, 0x0074, 0x0075, 0x0076, 0x0077, 0x0078, 0x0079, 0x007a, 0x007b, 0x007c, 0x007d, 0x007e, 0x007f, 0x00c7, 0x00fc, 0x00e9, 0x00e2, 0x00e4, 0x00e0, 0x00e5, 0x00e7, 0x00ea, 0x00eb, 0x00e8, 0x00ef, 0x00ee, 0x00ec, 0x00c4, 0x00c5, 0x00c9, 0x00e6, 0x00c6, 0x00f4, 0x00f6, 0x00f2, 0x00fb, 0x00f9, 0x00ff, 0x00d6, 0x00dc, 0x00a2, 0x00a3, 0x00a5, 0x20a7, 0x0192, 0x00e1, 0x00ed, 0x00f3, 0x00fa, 0x00f1, 0x00d1, 0x00aa, 0x00ba, 0x00bf, 0x2310, 0x00ac, 0x00bd, 0x00bc, 0x00a1, 0x00ab, 0x00bb, 0x2591, 0x2592, 0x2593, 0x2502, 0x2524, 0x2561, 0x2562, 0x2556, 0x2555, 0x2563, 0x2551, 0x2557, 0x255d, 0x255c, 0x255b, 0x2510, 0x2514, 0x2534, 0x252c, 0x251c, 0x2500, 0x253c, 0x255e, 0x255f, 0x255a, 0x2554, 0x2569, 0x2566, 0x2560, 0x2550, 0x256c, 0x2567, 0x2568, 0x2564, 0x2565, 0x2559, 0x2558, 0x2552, 0x2553, 0x256b, 0x256a, 0x2518, 0x250c, 0x2588, 0x2584, 0x258c, 0x2590, 0x2580, 0x03b1, 0x00df, 0x0393, 0x03c0, 0x03a3, 0x03c3, 0x00b5, 0x03c4, 0x03a6, 0x0398, 0x03a9, 0x03b4, 0x221e, 0x03c6, 0x03b5, 0x2229, 0x2261, 0x00b1, 0x2265, 0x2264, 0x2320, 0x2321, 0x00f7, 0x2248, 0x00b0, 0x2219, 0x00b7, 0x221a, 0x207f, 0x00b2, 0x25a0, 0x00a0];
for (let character_index = character_first; character_index <= character_last; ++character_index)
{
const character_offset = resource_offset + 0x76 + 4 * (character_index - character_first);
const character_width = read_u16_le(buffer, character_offset);
console.assert(9 === character_width, 'FON file has unexpected character width');
const character_stride = (character_width + 7) >> 3;
const glyph_offset = resource_offset + read_u16_le(buffer, character_offset + 2);
const byte_count = character_stride * font_height;
const glyph_image = new ImageData(character_width, font_height);
for (let byte_index = 0; byte_count !== byte_index; ++byte_index)
{
const byte_value = buffer[glyph_offset + byte_index];
const byte_x = Math.floor(byte_index / font_height) << 3;
const byte_y = byte_index % font_height;
const shift_last = Math.min(8, character_width - byte_x);
for (let shift = 0; shift < shift_last; ++shift)
{
const pixel_offset = ((byte_y * character_width) + (byte_x + shift)) << 2;
if (1 === ((byte_value >> (7 - shift)) & 1))
{
glyph_image.data[pixel_offset + 3] = 0xFF;
}
}
}
font[codepage[character_index]] = glyph_image;
}
return font;
}
function read_bits(buffer, offset, count)
{
let bits = '';
for (let shift = 7; 0 <= shift; --shift)
{
bits += (buffer[offset] >> shift) & 1;
}
for (let shift = 7; 0 <= shift; --shift)
{
bits += (buffer[offset + 1] >> shift) & 1;
}
return bits;
}
function read_string(buffer, offset, length = buffer.length - offset)
{
const maximum = offset + length;
let result = '';
for (let position = offset; position < maximum; ++position)
{
const character = buffer[position];
if (0 == character)
{
return result;
}
result += String.fromCharCode(character);
}
return result;
}
function read_u16_le(buffer, offset)
{
return buffer[offset] + (buffer[offset + 1] << 8);
}
function render_pre(node, font)
{
console.assert(0 === node.getElementsByTagName('canvas').length);
const font_height = font['height'];
let x = 0;
let y = 0;
let x_maximum = 0;
let y_maximum = 0;
let text = node.textContent.replace(/\n$/, '');
for (let index = 0; index < text.length; ++index)
{
const code = text.codePointAt(index);
if (10 == code)
{
x = 0;
y += font_height;
}
else
{
const glyph = font[code];
if (undefined === glyph)
{
x += 9;
}
else
{
console.assert(glyph.height == font_height, 'FON file has unexpected glyph height')
x += glyph.width;
}
}
x_maximum = Math.max(x_maximum, x);
y_maximum = Math.max(y_maximum, y);
}
const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas.imageSmoothingEnabled = false;
canvas.width = x_maximum;
canvas.height = y_maximum + font_height;
x = 0;
y = 0;
text = node.textContent.replaceAll('\t', ' ');
for (let index = 0; index < text.length; ++index)
{
const code = text.codePointAt(index);
if (10 == code)
{
x = 0;
y += font_height;
}
else
{
const glyph = font[code];
if (undefined === glyph)
{
x += 9;
}
else
{
context.putImageData(glyph, x, y);
x += glyph.width;
}
}
}
node.appendChild(canvas);
node.className = 'fon';
document.getElementsByName('renderer')[1].click();
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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