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by andrewshadura 2213 days ago
I myself had written a tool like yours for a similar purpose except I needed it done quick'n'dirty, so I wrote it in C with GTK and just used a grid of toggle buttons :D

It all went fine until I needed a variable width modern-looking font, so I wrote a convertor from BDF to the proprietory format the video chip used (vertical middle-endian scan lines arranged in a weird order) and generated the BDF using gbdfed or FontForge, I don't remember which one. I must admit the convertor was horrible :D