Font problems

[jsantos98]

Hello,

After an entire weekend trying to make my font work, I give up .

I've tried to make my own font, use the font included in C:\projects\Edge\media (font_outline.png), and nothing seemed to work!

I'm including the following in the zip file :
1. font_outline.png = File included in C:\projects\Edge\media (Not working)
2. @Arial Unicode MS_12_.bmp : My image with the chars (For some reason, the font tool included is not working with BMPs)
3. @Arial Unicode MS_12_.png : The same as 2. but saved in .png format. This file could be converted by font tool
4. @Arial Unicode MS_12__target.bmp : Image generated by font tool
5. Connect.png : Screenshot of the connect demo project using the Arial Unicode MS_12__target.bmp file (renamed to "Arial_Unicode_MS_12__target.bmp").


Here is the changed code :

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1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15	ERESULT ClassMain::OnDisplayInit(EINSTANCE instance, ClassEDisplay *display) {     //Load a fixed font file     if (display->CreateSurface(&font, "Arial_Unicode_MS_12__target.bmp") != E_OK)     {         SetErrorMsg("Error loading font");         return(E_ERROR);     }     else         font.SetColorKey(ECOLOR_FUCHSIA);     curbuffer = &display->buffer;     DrawGUI(curbuffer);     return(E_OK); }
	15 lines; 4 keywds; 0 nums; 41 ops; 2 strs; 1 coms    Syntactic Coloring v0.4 - Dan East

Can you help me understanding what I am doing wrong?


Many thanks.

Joao

[edge]

Hi Joao,

The bitmap can't be read by the font tool because it is saved as 32-bit. Formats currently supported are: 1, 4, 8 and 24 bits.

The font is not displayed correctly because the quote (") character uses 2 characters in the font. You can fix this by opening your font file and manually draw the white line above this character. Attached is the corrected font.

Play around with the scan tolerance option to fix these issues.

[jsantos98]

Sorry, but it didn't solve the problem...

Just to be sure, I used the file you attached

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1	if (display->CreateSurface(&font, "font_corrected.bmp") != E_OK)
	1 lines; 1 keywds; 0 nums; 10 ops; 1 strs; 0 coms    Syntactic Coloring v0.4 - Dan East

But the result was exactly the same. Trying to play with the scan tolerance didn't help much either.

Shouldn't the file "font_outline.png" included in the media folder of the Edge package work? I must be doing something really wrong

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[edge]

Hi Joao,

Please use the following 2 function calls after loading your font:

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1  2	font.SetColorKey(ECOLOR_FUCHSIA); font.BuildTableVwf();
	2 lines; 0 keywds; 0 nums; 8 ops; 0 strs; 0 coms    Syntactic Coloring v0.4 - Dan East

I hope this works better.

[jsantos98]

I was already using the first, but not the second

It now fixed the problem, however, the caracters are very close to each other. Do you have any solution for that?

Joao

[edge]

Hi Joao,

You can use the SetFontPadding functions to increase horizontal or vertical space. This function also takes negative values. More information can be found here:
http://www.edgelib.com/index.php?node=299

[jsantos98]

Just like borat would say... Nice :):):):)

Thanks a lot.

[jsantos98]

I've created a simple tool that creates a bitmap (now it saves in 24bit) with the charset used by Edge. I've created this because I was unable to work with the spacing in paint and my favorite image editing application (Paint.Net) doesn't allow me to define the spacing. Photoshop licenses are out of question because of princing.

If you want, you can make it available to anyone that wants to use it. I'll release the full source code later, as soon as I make some small enhacements like :

* Save the last used settings
* Try to be able to draw the fonts without any cleartype setting
* Try to create the final image file used in edge

Hope you find it useful. It took me an entire hour to make

[edge]

Hi Joao,

The font tool works great!

Is it OK if we upload on the edgelib.com website under 'contributed tools'?

[jsantos98]

Of course you can. Since the beginning it was my intention to give the tool for anyone who had the same problem

Yesterday, I was able to make the tool to draw the font without any cleartype effect even with the clear type active in XP... it was tricky but fun.

Is there any way I can contact you to finetune the tool with some options without needing to bother everyone who access the forum?

Best regards,

Joao

[edge]

Of course you can. Since the beginning it was my intention to give the tool for anyone who had the same problem

Yesterday, I was able to make the tool to draw the font without any cleartype effect even with the clear type active in XP... it was tricky but fun.

Thanks, please keep us posted about new versions!

Is there any way I can contact you to finetune the tool with some options without needing to bother everyone who access the forum?

Yes, please contact us directly using "support at edgelib dot com".