From: Greg Haerr <greg_at_censoft.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:59:00 -0600

: While on the subject on having a winge about bdf2fnt, might I suggest that
: we add basic error handling to the script? kind of checking that the right
: number of parameters are passed, and that the file exists???

I completely agree. I've spent too many years writing C,
and I'm not a very proficient shell script or perl hacker... That's why.

I'm likely going to have to rewrite the whole thing in C, so that
win32 folks w/o perl or cygnus can build fonts also.

Regards,

Greg

:
: thats not to say that I dont LOVE the work you lot are doing... many thanks
: for all your hard work making my Jukebox better :)
:
: g
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Greg Haerr" <greg_at_censoft.com>
: To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
: Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:36 PM
: Subject: Re: Fonts status 11:28 GMT, september 13, 2002
:
:
: > : o The loadfont seems to crash on target at times, I09:CPUAdrEr at
: 09010394
: > : was reported. And when it doesn't crash, the font comes up garbled.
: >
: > Not good. Since the compiled-in fonts appear to work fine,
: > we need to debug this using system.fnt = X5x9, which should
: > be the same bits as the compiled-in font. (I don't have
: > target debug capabililty, a good quick check here would be to
: > binary compare the MWCFONT structure in sysfonts[0] (compiled-in)
: > with sysfonts[1] (loaded) for the same font.
: >
: > :
: > : o The 'bdf2fnt' doesn't handle font names that start with a digit(!!!)
: >
: > Yes, this is because it tries to create C variables that are prefixed
: > with the font name, which starts with a digit... I'll fix it.
: >
: > :
: > : o The bdf2fnt barfs out on multiple fonts, one example being the
: pixelette
: > : here: http://rockbox.haxx.se/fonts/test/pixelette.bdf
: >
: > This .bdf font doesn't have a DEFAULT_CHAR in it, since
: > it seems to have been converted with ttf2bdf (there must
: > not be a default character in TT fonts). Since the font
: > has holes in it's range, bdf2c doesn't know which character
: > to allocate to unused positions in the encoding array. I'll fix it
: > to use the first glyph in these cases.
: >
: >
: > :
: > : o I ran the helvR08.bdf font (http://rockbox.haxx.se/fonts/) through the
: > : converter with only 255 letters and it came out fine. I just think
: that it
: > : seems to make the letters too heigh. I would assume I could get at
: least 8
: > : lines of text, but now I get 6.
: >
: > Yes, helvR08 is 10 pixels high.
: >
: > Am I just stupid, or does anyone have a 8
: > : pixels high prop font to try out?
: >
: > I can't seem to find one either!!
: >
: > Regards,
: >
: > Greg
: >
: >
:
Received on 2002-09-13