linux bitmap font generator.

[Pangit]

Hi,

What I would like to do is make a number of different sized pixel fonts for use in love, but I am running into a problem finding a tool to create the pngs.

I know there are a few windows programs to do this, but I can't seem to find any to generate bitmap fonts for use in love for linux.

http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/

So I was trying to find a program like this for linux. But it seems not to exist.

Will I need to do this in gimp? If so are there any pointers how best to create the file for use with love?

[zorg]

BMFont files would be a bit difficult to create with hand, but Löve supported and still supports a simpler imagefont type that's easier to create.

The [wiki]ImageFontFormat[/wiki] page on the wiki explains it well, though i'd add to it that you can create both mono or not monospaced fonts with that as well.

Also, i might be wrong on this one, but i think that having multiple rows is also allowed now... but i'd test that out first at the beginning, just to make sure, and to not have to reorder everything afterwards if i turn out to be wrong.

[Pangit]

Thanks will look into this. Its to try and get the Navi library working with different font sizes. the 8 pixel one is a bit small to see on the screen.

[Pangit]

So the way I got round this was using inkscape then gimp to trim the final png.

But what's weird is I get this strange error with one of the pixel fonts. It's like there are still parts of the yellow bars that get rendered. I don't know why.

pixelfont3.png (36.07 KiB) Viewed 9146 times

See it worked with one pixel font where all the characters were pretty much the same size, but when I extended it to include uppercase and lowercase, and numerals ect it seems to have caused a problem.

ImageFont4.png (15.17 KiB) Viewed 9143 times

See this one works,

ImageFont5.png (63.89 KiB) Viewed 9143 times

Where as this one does not...

[substitute541]

Your yellows are bleeding all over the place. Make sure your image fonts are pixel perfect.

[zorg]

Another image:

bleed.png (32.86 KiB) Viewed 9130 times

You can see the artefacts for both the glyphs and the boxes as well.

[Pangit]

Cheers, will hit the zoom and fix it.

Lol - well that's significantly more tedious than I thought. Such a pity there are no linux tools to do this property. saving to png from inkscape is such a roll of the dice with pixel accurate stuff.

[ivcore]

Can't you use Gimp? I haven't worked much with Linux, but, as far as I know, Inkscape is a vector graphics editor, like Illustrator. It isn't as good as Photoshop (or Gimp, I think) to make/work with the pixel-accuracy of the pngs/bitmaps.