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Yuyu

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About Xbox Fonts?...
« on: October 26, 2003, 07:27:00 AM »
Ok, first of all, thank you in advance to anyone who can answer this for me...

1>Is there a place to get Xbox fonts from or do I need to get them from the games I have backed up to my HD?...
(I know I can use those and the factory installed ones on the Xbox HD)...

2>Is there a tool to create your own Xbox fonts from your PC fonts?...

3>Is there a program that allows you to preview the fonts before you use them on your Xbox?...

I fully understand how to implement these fonts into the things I want to do... I guess finally, a request.

4>If there is no program as above, for making and pre-viewing fonts, could a skilled developer make one?...
(Not sure how difficult this would be, so just throwing it out there)...

Please, if you answer any questions, put the number of the question you are answering next to the response...

Once again thank you for your response...
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ravage73

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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2003, 07:52:00 AM »
u will need the font bundle from the "usual places". yes you can use your own fonts from your pc. try to not pick a font that has spaces in the name.
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MrSelfDestruct

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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2003, 08:31:00 AM »
Ok, well I was actually going to make a thread about this with these EXACT same questions.

So....I have this font pacakge off of the usual places. How do I implement it into a skin that I create, through MXM skinner. I dont think skinner has an option to input your own fonts (I may be wrong), so I would assume that you would manully have to input the font into the menu.xml.

Will someone post an example of how I would do this?

Also....how do you use the fonts off of your PC? How do you convert them to an xbox font? Thanks ahead of time
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Yuyu

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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2003, 09:48:00 AM »
Just take a look at he skin.xml of the skin MXM Amp, you will see where they define the fonts as a resource up top, and then you will see how they implement it with the text sources in the bottom part of the code.. Its pretty easy to do, I just was unaware of the Font Bundle...

And as for using fonts from your PC, Font Maker uses the fonts from your PC in the process so as long as whatever font you want to use is installed to windows in the proper place it will be available to you in the Font Maker...
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