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Bits'N'Picas - Bitmap & Emoji Font Creation & Conversion Tools
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Feature request: Add support for Bitmap strikes #16

Open offalynne opened 3 years ago

offalynne commented 3 years ago

Thank you for this lovely piece of software!

As you may well be aware, rendering of pixel-based vector fonts on Windows is a mess because of ClearType: image

However there is a workaround possible by including bitmap strikes (documented here: https://int10h.org/blog/2016/01/windows-cleartype-truetype-fonts-embedded-bitmaps).

Currently the author of the blogpost/fonts in question proposes a workflow including closed source software "Fony" in addition to bitsnpicas, but it would be ideal if this could all be handled by one piece of software!

Thanks for considering.

diaowinner commented 1 year ago

There is a tool to do this: bdf2ttf (MIT), but there's no way to import a bitmap strike in a vector ttf/otf except FontForge, which is buggy.

I'm going to convert Fairfax, but it had a segmentation fault. Donno why.

offalynne commented 1 year ago

Thank you for letting me know @diaowinner

RebeccaRGB commented 1 year ago

Also, version 2 can export to otb (OpenType Bitmap), which is much better supported than ttf with bitmap strikes.

quiple commented 1 year ago

There is a tool to do this: bdf2ttf (MIT), but there's no way to import a bitmap strike in a vector ttf/otf except FontForge, which is buggy.

I'm going to convert Fairfax, but it had a segmentation fault. Donno why.

I think it can be done with fontTools but it need to convert to ttx.