Missing Font in Simple Test example

[djecken]

A user has reported the LeagueSpartan 16 point font is not in the bitmap fonts library. This causes an error in the simple test .py
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file/directory: LeagueSpartan-Bold-16.bdf

[djecken]

I think you last worked on this @FoamyGuy ? ^^

[FoamyGuy]

The fonts used by the examples are in the fonts/ inside of examples/ folder here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Bitmap_Font/tree/main/examples/fonts. The LeagueSpartan-Bold-16.bdf one is in there. The examples expect that the whole fonts/ folder will be copied to the CIRCUITPY drive in order to have the fonts used by them.

If these are linked in learn with the project bundler tool somewhere it might automatically get the font files and include them in the download, I don't recall for sure if that works with fonts and subfolders for library examples, but I think it may.

I believe the LeagueSpartan fonts are also included in this bundle: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython-fonts which can be installed via circup instead of manually copying files. Though installing circup and adding this bundle to it might be more complex than is worth for some users depending on their environment and command line experience.

Though I do see there isn't really any explanation of copying or loading the fonts in the simpletest scripts. It should get updated to be made more clear that the user needs to copy those font files. I can add that to my list to work on.

I don't think we would want to include the font files themselves in with the library because the choice of which ones to include would be kind of arbitrary and it would mean everyone using the library would end up with a copy of that font taking space on the CIRCUITPY drive even if they weren't using it.