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ROMAN

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Windows FON Font Reader Library for Free Pascal & Turbo Pascal By RetroNick - Code Released Dec 17 - 2025

Enhanced version with:

• Text rotation (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°)
• Vertical text direction
• BGI-compatible helper functions (OutTextXY, SetTextStyle, SetTextJustify, etc.)

Supports:

• Windows 2.x/3.x NE format FON files
• Both raster (bitmap) and vector (stroke) fonts
• Scalable rendering for vector fonts

Usage: uses WinFont, PTCGraph;

var
  Font: TWinFont;
begin
  Font := TWinFont.Create;
  if Font.LoadFromFile('ROMAN.FON') then
  begin
    Font.Scale := 2.0;  // Scale factor for vector fonts
    Font.Rotation := rot90;  // Rotate 90 degrees
    Font.DrawText(100, 100, 'Hello World!');

// Or use BGI-style functions
Font.SetTextJustify(CenterText, CenterText);
Font.OutTextXY(400, 300, 'Centered Text');

end;
Font.Free;

end;