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Flotsam
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 81 |
Defining big charsets
Hiya all, I'm back with more noob questions. So, I'm making a font with each letter being X*11 characters in size. X being 2-4, so variable width. I have a bitmap with all letters and I know it'll take 93 with equal char packing. The problem is, CharPad has a limit of 7x7 characters for tiles and I don't know any other programs that would let me do tiles from a bitmap (with automatic indexing). Do I need to do this by hand or write my own tool, or is there something that can do this?
Bottom line: I need a proggy that'll let me organise an indexed bitmap into tiles of 4*11 size (or preferably variable size). If the same proggy does the indexing too, even better. Does such thing exist? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11108 |
Sounds like the type of tool everyone of us must write at least once :o) |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 553 |
Personally, if you have variable width, I would convert to 1x11 chars... depending on your font you might find that if you store strips of chars you’ll have duplicates there too. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11108 |
or make tiles and rle pack strips of those :)
it all depends on what you want to do with it at the end |
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TWW
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 541 |
Just make a charmap with 4 x 11 x # of characters (the 1 x 11 still takes 4 x 11). You can then easily extract the charmap from the … charmap. letter A = 11 x 4 x 1, B = 11 x 4 x 2 etc.
Then you just make a table for the variable width which cuts off the "less than" 4 chars wide characters. |
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Flotsam
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 81 |
Good ideas on how to do the indexing on my own, thanks. So it seems there's no specialised tool (yet) to do this... |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
Mega Logo Converter V1.2
Heigh-Ho Converter V1.0
these can convert a bitmap to charset+ screen. heigh ho can even fix a color to a bitpattern. |
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Flotsam
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 81 |
Thanks for the suggestions. I decided to write a C# program to do the reorganising of data and indexing, that way I have full control over the final result. |
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Walt
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 47 |
Charset-Maker V1.0 was made for this exact scenario... |
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 512 |
I'd use pixcen. |
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Joe
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 224 |
PixCen is great for defining not only big screens, fonts, scrolling images and other things (animations). Use it! |
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