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Galaxy Explorer is the application Microsoft is building as part of the Share Your Idea campaign.
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POI Card creator tool needed #43

Closed timGerken closed 8 years ago

timGerken commented 8 years ago

It would be incredibly helpful to have a tool that, given two strings for input, automatically spits out a .PNG file for the POI card.

elitemn commented 8 years ago

This is definitely needed. I'd like to learn how to do this anyway.

timGerken commented 8 years ago

That would be awesome!

timGerken commented 8 years ago

Hey @elitemn, have you been able to make any progress on this tool?

elitemn commented 8 years ago

Hi @timGerken, I have a working tool, but I am not satisfied with the font I am using, how would I go about finding the original font you folks used for the billboards? The closest I could find was "OCR A Extended", but it would be nice to match 100%

timGerken commented 8 years ago

Hi @elitemn, I just received this from one of the original GE devs:

Here is the font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron or https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Orbitron

I don’t think it was ever checked in, but here is the license.

elitemn commented 8 years ago

Excellent Thanks @timGerken ! Should I include the POI maker as an added project to GE?

timGerken commented 8 years ago

Yes, that's the way I envisioned the POI maker tool living with GE. At this point, hold off on adding the actual font. Instead, add a readme pointing to where to install the font and make that a prerequisite for running the tool. I'm double-checking to see if the license the font was released under is compatible with the MIT licence that GE is under.

elitemn commented 8 years ago

@timGerken Just created a pull request for this, check it out.

timGerken commented 8 years ago

Hi @elitemn , are you ready to reissue your PR? I'd love to get the tool added to the GE codebase and re-create all the POIs!

elitemn commented 8 years ago

Yes, I'll open a PR today.

timGerken commented 8 years ago

Closed via #69. Thanks @elitemn !