[App] Rockbox Font Convertor [Windows]

[bascule]

You don't need the square brackets. In the standard notation of the syntax for command line operations, showing an item in square brackets means it is optional.

E.g., Command Line syntax: makefont [font size] filename1 [filename2 filename3 ...]

means that only a single filename is mandatory, both the font size and additional filenames are optional.

[delorean90]

Thanks i finaly have it now, i apreciate the help

[iwantanimac]

Sorry if it wasn't very obvious... i didnt even use the notation correctly... =P

Will be fixed... just need time.

EDIT: The new version should be finished within a couple hours. I have more homework to finish.

EDIT: Sorry, i've been having problems. The current development version (What I've accomplished so far) is available at the follwing URL - It probably works, i just haven't finished/Tested it myself.
http://rockbox.biniaris.net/Files/imac/FontConvertor-unzipped/makefont.bat

There's some extra details (And a kinda sorta changelog) at

http://rockbox.biniaris.net/Files/imac/FontConvertor-unzipped/info.txt

And i think the links are now broken, so ill be fixing that soon.

[bascule]

I've knocked another thing off your To Do list for the 1.2 version

The attached batch file code checks for native .bdf font types and automatically skips the otf/ttf>bdf conversion step.

So you can now drag and drop a mixed bunch of .ttf, .otf and .bdf fonts onto makefont.bat and it will automagically convert them all to Rockbox .fnt format...

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[iwantanimac]

Argh! Just as i get ready to release 1.1, you come along and do... this.

You're too fast!  

Oh well.. i have a tad less hacking to do now...  

Thanks a bunch for your help.

[RowaN]

It crashes when I try to convert my favourite font:

http://rapidshare.com/files/20589720/P0T-NOOD.ttf.html

Any ideas? Many thanks.

[bascule]

Any ideas? Many thanks.

1. I can't get at you rapidshare file, it keeps telling me 'download session invalid'. This could be a corporate firewall problem on my side...

2. Are you using the 1.1 release version, or my latest attachment?

3. Exactly how are you trying to convert it? What do you mean by a 'crash'? Have you made a proper .bat file? Do you get any error messages?

etc., etc., ...

[iwantanimac]

I tested that font and the download works fine.

As for converting, i see what you mean. otf2BDF crashes out.

No idea why, but that font file looks corrupt to begin with. You sure the font is okay?

And i have no control over that... ill check if there's a new version of OTF2BDF, but i doubt it. - I didn't code the programs used, just tied them together.

EDIT: No, there's no update... ill have to research why it doesn't work... -v here we come...

EDIT2: Okay, well i tested it with the -v switch and got this:

otf2bdf: no character map for platform -1 encoding -1.  Generating all glyphs.

Anyone got any ideas?

[bascule]

Not any specific ideas, but it definitely looks like the .ttf is broken not compliant with the TrueType font standard somehow...

[bascule]

For those who can read code, that particular error message is located at line 1115 in the source code:

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:1_C4EqigK_EJ:darwingrok.physics.ox.ac.uk:8080/source/s%3Fpath%3Dttf2bdf.c+ttf2bdf:+no+character+map+for+platform+-1+encoding+-1&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

[RowaN]

Thanks for looking into this guys. Its a sorta homemade TTF from an "oldskewl" bbs font so i wouldnt be suprised if as bascule has said, its not a 100% compliant TTF file. I dont think it scales like a TTF should (its not meant to anyway..), its just got a fixed size within it. Here is how it should look. for those interested:

[iwantanimac]

the font looks cool... only it doesn't seem to be fully compatible.

Sorry about that!

[iwantanimac]

Sorry i've not updated in a while guys. The code listed in the post up a few is basically the same as what the final release of the new version will be. I am going to be prettying up some of the ASCII now... something relevant yet interesting.

So update soon. If you can't wait, functionally it's all there in the above version.

EDIT: Here's what the new header is going to look like now:

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Comments? Hate it? Love it? Have a better idea? Please, comment away!

I would've used

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But .bat files don't like |s for some reason.

[lights0ut]

I know this is a little off topic, but I was wondering if it's possible to get this to run under linux? ( I've just started running kubuntu, hoping I can run Linux as my primary OS and I don't want to boot to windows just to make fonts)

Thanks

[Llorean]

All this is is a batch file for running two programs, one of which is included in the Rockbox tools. The other is this: http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ttf2bdf.html

For a linux user, you should be able to knock together something that'll run the both of them on a file. This batch is mainly for windows users to be able to drag and drop, and the original descriptiong of it was even "So you don't have to remember the names of two programs"