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2023-09-20 17:45:34 0admin

7500 fonts

2023-07-27 13:29:12 0admin

I added the 'year' tag/parameter and filled in some values for fonts published in known years. Feel free to filter by year now. Also, if you know a year of creation of some fonts, don't hesitate to suggest it.

2023-01-15 06:09:39 1Joe Strout

Yep, it'll be a big listbox with Char1, Char2, and the Kern value. With some buttons to add/remove rows. Only need to find the time...

2023-01-14 21:00:33 0admin

Joe Strout: Nice job! Looks promising.
The kerning feature wouldn't be that hard to add, would it? - input box for two characters, perhaps a convenient keyboard shortcut for expanding and contracting the shift, maybe some visualisation of the distance...
Once it's done I'd be happy to add the link among the tools into the ?page=support section.

2023-01-14 18:09:45 2Joe Strout

Here's a screen shot of my conversion tool so far. Still need to add kern support (it currently can calculating kerning, but gives you no way to edit it).

https://imgur.com/a/ASeecF7

2023-01-14 15:21:40 1Joe Strout

@admin: sorry for the late reply... conversion from TTF is still important to me. BMF is the only font support in Mini Micro, and people sometimes want to just draw nice readable text, using Noto Sans or whatever.

I'll see about cleaning up my converter tool and releasing it somewhere, and I guess I'll go ahead and include conversion to/from this AngelCode BMFont format too. I'll be sure to let you know when it's posted (but it may be a while -- got too many irons in the fire right now!).

2022-12-04 01:21:49 0admin

Joe Strout: The first line on their site says "This program will allow you to generate bitmap fonts from TrueType fonts." So there - really not much of a common denominator.
Though there are some ?tag=ttf fonts in collection here from the past, I think I am actually against adding other vector fonts here now. Those two worlds (of pixelated and vector graphics) have little in common, imo.
There is a library and an editor I wrote in Lazarus, as
of tools there's https://github.com/crs2/Bmf/blob/develop/ttf2png.php and https://bmf.php5.cz/img2bmf.php

2022-12-03 18:35:20 1Joe Strout

I've recently become aware of the "BMFont" format, popularized by AngelCode.com (http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/). It seems to be essentially the same as BMF, except that it uses two files: a PNG file for the glyph data, and a separate text file with the metadata. That's two files to keep track of instead of one, but it has the advantage that you can easily look at the PNG file for a preview of the font.

Any thoughts about how these two formats relate? Are there conversion tools from one to the other? Finally, one reason I've heard that people like BMFont is that there is a nice (Windows) tool for creating them from TrueType fonts -- do we have such a tool for BMF? (Except for mine, which I have not released?)

2022-11-22 22:28:08 1Oliver

Thanks a lot for the super quick update on the UI.
Soooo much better now.

2022-11-21 15:56:35 0admin

Oliver: I added this project to the ?page=support.

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