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[320x240x24] Redux theme for the iPod Video
jdotfite:
Hey guys, I recently stumbled upon the possible iPod video storage upgrades and then found rockbox. I quickly picked up an iPod, upgraded the storage and installed rockbox I am really enjoying rockbox and wanted to contribute something. I studied everyone's great themes all last week and am now ready to present my own theme. I am calling it "redux". I hope you guys like it! http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=2162&target=ipodvideo
jdotfite:
I would have really liked to use an anti-aliased Helvetica font for the time in the left hand corner, but for the life of me, I couldn't get figure out cygwin enough to use convttf. I ended up using droidsans since SAINT released a pack of all the sizes. Is there a compiled version of convttf for windows or would anyone be willing to do the helvetica fonts for the community?
cholero:
Hello jdotifite,
first of all, thanks for your great theme. It is one the themes that look A-Z stylish.
Maybe you've noticed that your theme is also listed for Cowon D2 Players. Maybe you could add touchscreen areas for the D2 owners, that would be great (or i could do it for you and send it to you, so you would release the update). And an FM screen would be cool too.
Maybe I will look at the convttf if i find the time, but i think it is difficult to get a good result :(. Anyway, is it allowed, to use the converted Helvetica fonts?
Regards, cholero
cholero:
I've played around a little with covttf. It gives out easily a quite good result:
The main problem are the numbers. It is annoying if you use a font for time display where the numbers are not equally wide. It is not with your Droidsans and I couldn't make it the same width with Helvetica and convttf. I would stay with Droidsans or did you try ubuntu? Ubunt has a constant width.
If you're still interested and have a ttf font which is legal to use (I don't remember where I got my ttf's from), send it to me and I'll try to convert it.
btw, these are the options whit convttf:
Usage: convttf [options] [input-files]
convttf [options] [-o output-file] [single-input-file]
Default output-file : <font-size>-<basename>.fnt.
When '-ta' or '-tc' is specified in command line,
default output-file is:
<font-size>-<internal postscript-name of input-file>.fnt.
Options:
-s N Start output at character encodings >= N
-l N Limit output to character encodings <= N
-p N Font size N in pixel (default N=15)
-c N Character separation in pixel.Insert space between lines.
-x Trim glyphs horizontally of nearly empty space
(to improve spacing on V's W's, etc.)
-X Set the horizontal and vertical resolution (default: 60)
-TA N Trim vertical ascent (N percent)
-TD N Trim vertical descent (N percent)
-Ta N Trim vertical ascent (N pixels)
-Td N Trim vertical descent (N pixels)
-r N Row separation in pixel.Insert space between characters
-d Debug: print converted glyph images
-tt Display the True Type Collection tables available in the font
-t N Index of true type collection. It must be start from 0.(default N=0).
-ta Convert all fonts in ttc (ignores outfile option)
-w Don't try to make digits (0-9) equally wide
-L Use lighter hinting algorithm
[Saint]:
Were these the fonts I generated years and years ago?
Droidsans and Ubuntu anti-aliased fonts make me want to say yes, if not, that's an incredible coincidence.
By default, convttf will *try* to make all digits equally wide, unless the user passes the -w flag, but in my experience, this is a mixed bag of results. Most of the convttf flags come with some non-obvious caveat (manually adjusting ascent/descent is a veritable nightmare), but the results are generally "OK".
Should I consider this a call to arms, and generate a new font set to link to the Extras page?
Would this be useful, wanted?
[Saint]
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