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Font Tools

Started by Guimo Nov 21, 2004 at 6:50 PM 3 replies 1k views

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Nov 21, 2004 at 6:50 PM

Hi, I'm in need of a font tool that allows me to: a. Create the font texture. b. Save each character bounding box in an ascii file (XML or any other). Can you please give me GOOD options (even if they cost a little). Luck! Guimo

Kibble

Nov 21, 2004 at 7:05 PM

LMNOpc bitmap font builder

You can save the font widths in binary or .ini form.

However, I've had some problems with it crashing after viewing too many fonts which gets a little annoying.

Guimo

Nov 21, 2004 at 8:31 PM

I'm looking for it. Thanks!

If anyone has other program please tell me.

Luck!
Guimo

MaulingMonkey

Nov 22, 2004 at 8:21 AM

You may want to check out FreeType. It's free, you can render bitmap fonts in memory which you can then use to create a texture, and you can get font metrics (not only the character bounding box, but things like "how far am I supposed to move"). Although you'd have to wrap the API to create an XML file with this data, IMHO that's a bad thing anyways - you have to have an xml file for each font, and if either the font or the xml changes bad things happen.

Guimo

Nov 22, 2004 at 10:00 AM

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I have found a really good tool for font work. Its called MudgeFont. Free and open source. Exports in TGA with alpha channel and a XML describing each character area.

Highly recommended.

Luck!
Guimo

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