Generating new fonts

[ronangaillard]

Hi,

Thanks for your helpful project !

How do you generate new fontx fonts in c code to be used with your library ?

Thanks,
Ronan

[tuupola]

I first convert BDF fonts to FONTX and then use xxd to create the header files. I quickly hacked the conversion tools from code I found online and some blogposts. All that code is needs to be cleaned up when I have time.

https://github.com/tuupola/fontx_tools
https://linux.die.net/man/1/xxd

I also converted some public domain fonts to FONTX format using these tools. You could check the Makefile to see all the conversion steps.

https://github.com/tuupola/embedded-fonts/blob/master/Makefile
https://github.com/tuupola/embedded-fonts/tree/master/X11
https://github.com/tuupola/embedded-fonts/tree/master/misc/viznut

[tuupola]

Also I have not tried it myself but @allenck has a FONTX editor for Windows.

https://github.com/allenck/FontXEdit

[ronangaillard]

Thanks for your quick and detailed answer ! :)

[ronangaillard]

For future reference :

I convert otf fonts to bdf with otf2bdf :

otf2bdf -p 24 -o roboto.bdf RobotoMono-Regular.otf

You can also select a subset using the l option. For instance to select only digits :

otf2bdf -p 24 -l '48_57' -o roboto.bdf RobotoMono-Regular.otf

I then use fontxedit on a Windows XP VM to convert the generated bdf font to a FONTX one.

EDIT : easier solution is to use bdf2fontx to convert bdf to fontx format :

cat roboto.bdf | bdf2fontx > roboto.fnt

I then use bin2header to convert the generated FONTX font to a .h header :

bin2header roboto.fnt

[tuupola]

Thanks! I will try this myself too.

[vbenso]

Hello,
I'm having some fun with hagl in the past days.
I've followed the above instructions to generate some fonts, and got some results.
I've noticed some vertical misalignment that is probably coming from bdf2fontx.

This doesn't happen when using the 6x9 font that is already in hagl source, only in my generated fonts.
Fonts were generated from RobotoMono-Regular.ttf by the fontx tools from the fix-fonts branch, since I would get a malloc failure when using tools from master.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help