.file extension FNT - Microsoft Windows font file
.FNTFile extension FNT description:
Formats for Microsoft Windows font files are defined for both raster and vector fonts. These formats can be used by smart text generators in some GDI support modules. The vector formats, in particular, are more frequently used by GDI itself than by support modules.
Both raster and vector font files begin with information that is common to both, and then continue with information that differs for each type of file.
For Windows 3.0, the font-file header includes six new fields: dFlags, dfAspace, dfBspace, dfCspace, dfColorPointer, and dfReserved1. These fields are not used in Windows 3.0. To ensure compatibility with future versions of Windows, these fields should be set to zero.
All device drivers support the Windows 2.x fonts. However, not all device drivers support the Windows 3.0 version.
Windows 3.0 font files include the glyph table in dfCharTable, which consists of structures that describe the bits for characters in the font file. This version enables fonts to exceed 64K in size, the size limit of Windows 2.x fonts. This is made possible by the use of 32-bit offsets to the character glyphs in dfCharTable.
Because of the 32-bit offsets and their potentially large size, these fonts are designed for use on systems that are running Windows version 3.0 in protected (standard or 386 enhanced) mode with an 80386 (or higher) processor where the processor’s 32-bit registers can access the character glyphs. Typically, device drivers use the Windows 3.0 version of a font only when both of these conditions are true.
Associated applications to file extension FNT:
Company / developer:
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.