Where to get AA fonts for new Rockbox 3.8

[happybear]

May I know the link to get AA fonts for the new Rockbox 3.8?
sorry, I searched but couldn't find it. 

[Chronon]

I don't think there are any in the font pack yet, so you'll probably need to convert them yourself.
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreateFonts

[happybear]

OK thanks! will try it out 

[happybear]

I've tried the convttf on a ttf font like this:

convttf -p 15 -c 1 Sans-Serif_E_Reg.ttf

and the resulting file displayed in the simulator is in italic.
I've tried other fonts like arial.ttf and its the same result.

Which option should I use to make it non italic?

Thanks.

[[Saint]]

happybear,

There isn't any.
Run convttf with no arguments to check for yourself. Maybe it's just screwed up and appears to be italic? Some fonts convert quite poorly for...<insert_reason>.



[St.]

[happybear]

I've tried it again without any options:

C:\convttf>convttf tahoma.ttf
Please wait, converting tahoma.ttf to tahoma_15.fnt:
caliculating height...
         done.
        2036 glyphs are encoded in this source file according to a source font property.
        1914 characters can be converted.
        fist character  = 32
        last character  = 65532
        line height     = 20

caliculating memory usage...
         done.

converting fonts...
done (converted 1914 glyphs, 0 errors).

...it seems to work well in the simulator now, but when I put in on my E270 the font appears all gibberish...

This is my tag:
%Fl(2,verdana_15_AA.fnt)

Even if I use 1914 as the total glyphs based on the converted glyphs from convttf:
%Fl(2,verdana_15_AA.fnt,1914)

Does anyone have any successfully converted AA fonts to share that is good on the actual player?

[[Saint]]

What I meant by "with no arguments" was simply doing:

"./convttf"

This will bring up the help dialogue, and you could have seen for yourself that there is no flag to enable/disable italics.

Sorry to confuse you.


[St.]

[bluebrother]

May I know the link to get AA fonts for the new Rockbox 3.8?

There is no "new Rockbox 3.8". Rockbox 3.8.1 has been released which is a bugfix release of Rockbox 3.8. Rockbox 3.8 did not include support for anti aliased fonts. Since 3.8.1 is a bugfix release it also doesn't support it -- it's a bugfix release, and bugfix releases only get bugfixes, no new features. If you want to use anti aliased fonts you need to use a current build.

[happybear]

OK...

I'm using the current build r29701 and some AA fonts from old custom builds (eg: kugels, blackthunder, isanggon) from years ago.

It works just fine now! 

Thanks everyone!

[[Saint]]

I was working on a theme that required a nice anti-aliased font in a range of sizes.

Whilst I was working on this project I realised there was a need for some much larger fonts to use with Rockbox as an Application, as a result of this need I created an anti-aliased font package that should migrate it's way into our released font package shortly.

The set contains fonts converted from the DroidSans font which range from 12px to 50px, in 2px increments, in both regular and bold variations.

In the meantime, it is available here:

Font Set: DOWNLOAD
Sources: DOWNLOAD

Enjoy.



[St.]

[gbl08ma]

On the link of my signature you can find a page with RB AA fonts converted by myself, from Open Source fonts. Please note that I couldn't test them all on a device or sim, so feedback is highly appreciated.

I will be adding more fonts as I convert them. It seems DroidSans is already converted so I'll add it ASAP .

[happybear]

Nice fonts guys... Thanks for sharing!.

I did notice that if I put a large AA font higher than 20 points, my backdrop disappears on my player although the font displays perfectly. I'm using custom backdrops for FM screen, WPS screen.

[gbl08ma]

Nice fonts guys... Thanks for sharing!.

I did notice that if I put a large AA font higher than 20 points, my backdrop disappears on my player although the font displays perfectly. I'm using custom backdrops for FM screen, WPS screen.

Even with DroidSans, the font provided by [St.]? (I want to know if it's a problem of my conversions...)

[gevaerts]

Nice fonts guys... Thanks for sharing!.

I did notice that if I put a large AA font higher than 20 points, my backdrop disappears on my player although the font displays perfectly. I'm using custom backdrops for FM screen, WPS screen.

This sounds like a WPS buffer size issue.

[Progweed]

On the link of my signature you can find a page with RB AA fonts converted by myself, from Open Source fonts. Please note that I couldn't test them all on a device or sim, so feedback is highly appreciated.

Thanks for these fonts, gbl08ma. Inconsolata, Nobile & Orbitron work well on my Sansa Fuze. I didn't test the other two fonts.

And btw, I compiled convttf for users unable to do so themselves:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6xqh4c383qqa5b1/convttf.zip