I am wondering if anyone has ever tried or know how to take a font charater(s) and convert it into a .BMP, .GIF, or .JPG file? Or does anyone know if this is NOT possible?

I have a program that shows guitar chords along with a label that uses a font to display the chord pattern.  I would like to be able to manipulate this label as a graphic file.  This is because the font used (FretQwikC.ttf) is unusal because it takes about 8-12 character to form a single chord image/pattern. (I am guessing that it has characters that have a zero width).  I would like to create an image and allow users to copy that image into the clipboard instead of the string of characters.

Please see http://wonderdogprograms.com/programs/frethelper to see an image of my program (or download it).

[Edited by Racer-X on 20-09-2005 at 10:03 AM GMT]

Hi,
Yes.. defintly possible to convert font to BMP (assuming that windows displays it)... it's a bit of GDI but not too bad. The issue is how much you want to do... you can always use a picturebox and write onto it to copy the image, or pure gdi to convert a font to a bmp.
google "convert font to bmp".
k

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