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Font Fiend can be used to collect bitmap images into font sprite files stored in the same file format as the font files that Font Fiend creates. There are three reasons you might want to use Font Fiend for this task. First, when Font Fiend imports a bitmap as a sprite it trims away all excess pixels (ie. all completely transparent pixels) which results in smaller file sizes. Secondly, Font Fiend allows the designer or artist to specify the "hotspot" for the sprites - this is helpful because you can visually edit the sport around which your sprites are drawn. Imagine if you have a sequence of explosion images. Those images need to be played back centered on each other of the animation will appear jittery. The hotspot editor can be used to quickly fix this. Lastly, Font Fiend can be helpful to gather like images into sprite files for better organizing your game projects and better game code efficiency as load and draw routines can be shared by font and sprite files.

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