www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/index.html
below for more information) ProFont for Windows, for Mac, for Linux ProFont for Windows, Mac, Linux ProFont is a small bitmap font which is absolutely great for programming. It was made for Macintosh computers, but now it's also available for Windows and Linux/UNIX X Windows.
Or do you already know my ProFont problem from prior visits on this page? Okay, I'll add a short summary anyway: I was looking for a monospaced font that is readable in very small sizes. In my opinion, bitmap fonts work better at this job than outlined fonts (such as TrueType or Type1). On my Macintosh at home, I have such a great bitmap font called ProFont that I'm usually using at 9pt. But there was no Windows version, so when I was sitting in office I really missed it. Thanks to all the people who have been trying to help me in one way or another! But special thanks go to Sheldon Simms, who send me his own small sized bitmap font; fon file format and Zhichao Hong who converted ProFont to X Windows pcf. Have a look at these great small fonts: ProFont 9t This is a sample screenshot of ProFont @ 9pt. This is what I'm working with, now available for Mac and Windows. Did you ever see a font which is as readable as this one? SheldonNarrow 12t This is Sheldon Simms own font, and it's absolutely great, too. And if you don't like ProFont, you'll maybe be satisfied with this one. Sheldon made the windows version that I converted to Macintosh bitmap font file format. The Windows file has some versions that are not in contained in the Mac file. And if you still wonder what I'm talking about, you're probably no programmer or you don't like small fonts at all ... fnt font file format (and yes, there are still Atarians working with much better software than you'll probably guess), but I found a font called ProFontJB, made by Jens Brggemann, which comes close. So when I'm working with Atari editors, I'm using ProFontJB. Now I've got fine small monospaced programming fonts for Mac, Win and Atari. But note that the TrueType version is not as readable in small sizes as ProFontJB is.
And there's a tweaked version for Windows (TrueType) which includes various modifications; eg a Euro character, missing characters from the Latin 1 code page, block/box characters you know from DOS.
forum available were you can post comments, questions and (most important) bug reports regarding ProFont and Sheldon. fon format): The first versions couldn't be used in some text editors (such as VIM or MultiEdit) because they weren't recognized as monospaced fonts. Zhichao Hong and Mark Anderson fixed that problem, lotsa thanks for that; Update Sep 17 2002 I added a few characters to Sheldon for Mac that were missing before: New character in Sheldon Mac I hope I didn't screw up anything, so the original version is still contained in the archive. There are still some more characters missing, but since I don't need'em I skipped'em. Get yourself a copy of ResEdit if you like to add some changes... Obviously I wasn't the only one who has been searching a good looking small sized, monospaced bitmap font for windows. Within a few weeks, ProFont and Sheldon for Windows have been downloaded more often than any other file from my website. Well, maybe it's just because this page is in english while the rest of the site is in german language, but I like to think that's because all people like those fonts as much as I do. Because some of you demanded it, I added ProFont TrueType. It won't look as great as the bitmap versions, but maybe you'll like it anyway. Furthermore, I moved the download files to another server.
old document, I mentioned that bitmap fonts don't work with MacOS X Other people claimed otherwise. I don't know since I'm still stuck with MacOS 9 * Please excuse my poor english.
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