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Posted: 19th Aug 2011 22:56 Edited at: 25th Aug 2011 14:17
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This is a little tool to create PNG-fontmaps from fonts that are installed on your machine.
It's early beta and you might find several bugs (that you'll hopefully report ). This is Windows only but a Mac version will come soon(ish).

Beta 1
Initial public release


Beta 2
- "Save As" dialog implemented so you can specify where the font image is saved.
- character maps can be edited, saved and loaded now.
- Other small tweaks


Beta 3 Windows
- mainly bug fixes

Beta 3 for OS X
- initial public OS X release

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Posted: 19th Aug 2011 23:03 Edited at: 25th Aug 2011 14:25
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And screeny



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Posted: 19th Aug 2011 23:17 Edited at: 19th Aug 2011 23:19
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Cool program. But where does it save the image file?

Edit: Found it. Saves on the root drive under the filename 'atest.png'.

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Just open and save Fontmap, Don't change any setting....

Get error.

AMD Athlon 7750, 4G RAM, Windows 7 64bits

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Once developed this should be packed in an AppGameKit update as a utility.
Very handy.

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Can't seem to find the fontmap... Any help?
I didn't find it in the folder.


Cheers.

God help me, Please.
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Beta 2

- "Save As" dialog implemented so you can specify where the font image is saved.
- character maps can be edited, saved and loaded now.
- Other small tweaks

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Very nice program, empty. Messed around with it a bit to see if I could find any bugs for you and I came up with a few;

1. During the 'save as' prompt when you're asked to find a location to save your fontmap to, if you click 'cancel', the application freezes and needs to be ctrl+alt+del'ed to close.

2. When adding a black drop shadow to the font, the black drop shadow areas seem to become colorized and pixelated when the fontmap is loaded into GIMP. (This didn't occur for me when using other drop shadow colors). Maybe a png issue with black/transparency?

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Posted: 20th Aug 2011 16:42
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Thanks for testing

1. Yes, that's correct. Will fix it for the next release
2. That's very odd. Will have to look into this.
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Posted: 20th Aug 2011 17:40
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I'm just seeing a white background, no transparency.

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Quote: "I'm just seeing a white background, no transparency."


If you're opening with Windows Photo Gallery, you won't see the transparency. Try opening it in an image program, or just grab the thumbnail and put it on your desktop on an area where the background isn't white; then you should be able to see weather or not it's transparent.

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Posted: 20th Aug 2011 21:03 Edited at: 21st Aug 2011 02:06
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Well, actually I opened it in Irfanview, which handles .png transparency just fine.

But I just re-downloaded the latest beta and the transparency is fine, so I may have been using an earlier version.

EDIT: Also, I am seeing the glitch with the black shadow having some fringing and color change.

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Works great thanks!
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Posted: 24th Aug 2011 14:12
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Beta 3

Mainly bug fixes.
The next version will make use of a different rendering method, that is more flexible in terms of effects and quality.

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Beta 3 for OS X

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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 14:24
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OS X screenshot

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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 16:00 Edited at: 25th Aug 2011 16:02
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You're getting closer, but...

This is Verdana, at rendered font size 44...



Also, the created .png files are WAY bigger than needed. What I mean is that there is a lot of unused blank area in the image. An empty row at the top, a lot of empty at the bottom, and lots of blank area to the right of the characters.

Really cool that you made an OSX version, I'm going load that up and take it for a test ride!

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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 16:23
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I'm about to change the rendering method that eliminates issues like the one you brought up. It will be available with the coming updates.

Quote: "Also, the created .png files are WAY bigger than needed."

Yes the calculation is not optimized yet. This will also work better with the new rendering method.
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could it be possible to have border around the text and change the colours of the text, and what would be brill is if we could texture the fonts.

i know im greedy

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Posted: 31st Aug 2011 18:50 Edited at: 31st Aug 2011 18:51
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Thanks for writing this app. its going to be a HUGE help.

I'm having a bit of trouble with it though . . . hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction.

I'm running windows 7 sp1 x64.

When I generate my font map the color I've select doesn't seem to apply. It's always white. Lowercase letters such as y a j get cut off at the bottom when displaying in AGK. They look normal in the generated png file.

Any thoughts on this one? Thanks!
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 02:51 Edited at: 6th Sep 2011 02:59
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Thanks for the app.

To get the characters to align with the subimages.txt coordinates I've had to open the png file in Photoshop and move the layer up 3 pixels. If I don't move the layer up I'm seeing the bottom of the characters from the line above in my text, similar to Rich's screenshot above.

Also, what do the Offset options do? In Beta 3 the two sliders are inactive and the one you can amend (near the drop shadow options) allows you to set it as 1 to 10 but I can't really see any difference between 1 and 10.

A really useful feature would be to export to a layered PSD or similar format file so that we can add styles and textures and then save as PNG. But that aside it's a nice app and saves manually trying to replicate the ascii.png file in the SmackIt directory.

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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 14:58
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At the moment I've got little to no time to work on this, so don't expect any updates before next week.

As you noticed, the coordinates in the subimage file are a little off at times. It is strange that the selected font colour does not apply. I'll look have into that.
Exporting to PSD is an interesting idea, although I'll have to check how complex that format is.

With the new rendering method, the next version will also have a completely different UI. There are several more effects planned for the future. These include more options for the drop shadow, outlines, textures, and reflections.
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This is extremely helpful! Thank you!

I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong, but I cannot display any special characters, like ! or +. Everything else is fine, do I need to do anything differently to display special characters? My code is:



Many thanks.
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