DancePuffDuo no longer looks right in IAudio X5

[akadewboy]

I don't know if anybody has noticed, but DancePuffDuo doesn't look right in the IAudioX5 builds anymore.

What it's supposed to look like (pic from months ago):


What it looks like now (notice the puffballs on top of the progress bar and the MP3 image covering up part of the timer):


It's as if the font lost a single pixel in height. Because if you try to move the last 4 lines down 1 line it cuts the last line in half.


I'm not sure when it first happened, I just recently noticed it.

[Llorean]

Is this with an official, SVN build?

It looks like the positioning of the ----(MP3)---- bar has been moved slightly.

[bluebrother]

maybe that's related to the removal of the chicago font? (it was chicago, wasn't it?)

[akadewboy]

maybe that's related to the removal of the chicago font? (it was chicago, wasn't it?)

Whoa I think you're right, I just found an old rockbox build on my harddrive (the one that made the first correct screenshot) and it used to use chicago12.fnt now it uses nimbus-12.fnt.

Although nimbus-12 is similar, it looks like it's different enough to cause problems. What was the reason for removing chicago12?

[bluebrother]

license reasons afair.

[LinusN]

Plus that the Chicago font in Rockbox was lousy, it only supported 7-bit ASCII.

[pixelma]

Although nimbus-12 is similar, it looks like it's different enough to cause problems.

The problem here is that the chicago-12.fnt even though called "12" seems to have been 13 pixels tall. There is one other included WPS that is affected by the change, besides "DancPuffDuo" it is also "marquee".

I wanted to fix this and try to invent a nimbus-13.fnt - first by just adding a blank line above or below the current 12-point characters and then drawing a proper fix... if I could just figure out what setting to change in fontforge to achieve this...

[Lear]

Should be enough to edit the BDF file directly, changing a few lines to this:

SIZE 13 78 78
FONTBOUNDINGBOX 11 13 0 -2
FONT_ASCENT 11

That fixed the height, but the glyph positioning is slightly different compared to the original (the extra line is located above the glyphs). The line can be put below the glyphs by doing this instead:

SIZE 13 78 78
FONTBOUNDINGBOX 11 13 0 -3
FONT_DESCENT 3

[Mikerman]

From prior experimentation, Marquee will work with a number of other fonts--Chicago just seemed like a good compromise as to size/readability.

[pixelma]

Thanks to Lear, the "fix" is now in SVN. DancePuffDuo and marquee use nimbus-13 now and are aligned properly again.