font2bytes
A tribute to Lucky Resistor and his FontToBytes MacOS app. This is a multi-platform port of the app that converts font bitmap to array of bytes for use in embedded systems. Read the whole story in my blog post.
Components
- libfont2bytes - a font conversion library written in plain C++
- f2b - a command-line tool in C/C++
- font2bytes - an GUI application written in Qt
Requirements
- C++17
- CMake and libpng for the command-line tool
- Qt for the GUI app
Building
For the GUI app, use FontToBytes-gui.pro:
$ qmake FontToBytes-gui.pro
$ make
$ ./build/font2bytes
For the command-line tool you can use FontToBytes-cli.pro:
$ qmake FontToBytes-cli.pro
$ make
$ ./build/f2b
or if you don't have Qt (or don't want to use qmake):
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ ./f2b
There's a make install target provided, if you feel like integrating the app within your operating system (make uninstall is present too, also for the CMake build).
Usage
See example font files in templates directory. You'll also find there PSD templates for 8x8 and 16x11 fonts.
Author
Dominik Kapusta http://kapusta.cc
License
LGPL v3.0, see LICENSE for details.