I noticed there is a raster font editor in the DM 852 bin directory, and I read the help file for it.

I have been creating my own raster fonts as bitmaps, loading them as bitmap resources and blitting them in loops with GDI BitBlt using known character widths. It works great, but, I am wondering how much more efficient the rendering would be if I created the same font with this font editor, loaded it as a font resource and blitted it using TextOut (if that is even possible with a raster font). Do I really gain anything? Isn't the equivalent of a BitBlt plus a character width calculation and cursor position update already occurring for each character you print with TextOut anyway, under the covers? And I have implemented my own alternative to DrawText since it doesn't give you tight measurements anyway, so having DrawText available doesn't add any value for me (unless of course the rendering is more efficient or there is something else I'm not considering -- I'm not going to get antialiasing or any of that stuff, and would not want resizing, with a raster font anyway, right?).

Thanks,
Erik