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Does anyone know what dimensions (width and height) are required in the image file for my fonts?

The point is that whenever I try a new font image within my game I don't get the letters but "pieces" of them... which obviously I want to fix.

Does anyone know how?

You can use an image of any size but I would stick to 1024x1024 or under if you're publishing to mobile devices.

It is a complicated process but if you are intent on making your own fonts you will have to create a "subimages" text file to tell AppGameKit which letter is where.

I don't have the details for how the subimages file is laid out to hand. Can someone else shed a bit more light?

Otherwise there are some free font making utilities made by the community:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=189225&b=41
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=184828&b=8

The subimages file is a text file, named the same as the bitmap with " subimages" at the end, so if your image is called;
"font.png"

the subimages file would be;

"font subimages.txt"

Internally, there is a line for each character from 32 to 127.
each line is made up of five parameters seperated by a colon;
ascii value of the character
x coodinate
y coordinate
width
height.

Here's a sample of one I made earlier showing the first 8 characters;

This is for a fixed width font, each character is 64 wide by 96 high.

You can also stick other stuff in the same image (there's quite a bit of space left) and reference using custom names in the same way

You then access these with the loadSubImage() command.

If you don't want to go to the trouble, just use Hubdule's util (linked to by Baxslash above) , it handles fixed and variable width and creates the subimages file for you.

Thank you all for your help.