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U8glib library for monochrome displays, version 2
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Add best BDF font editor (win) #558

Closed ilyadesign closed 6 years ago

ilyadesign commented 6 years ago

Please, add to u8g2/tools/font/ this BDF font editor fony 1.4.7-wip. Best editor for BDF.

olikraus commented 6 years ago

Yes, indeed a nice editor. What exactly shell I do?

ilyadesign commented 6 years ago

Sorry, I didn't understand the question.

olikraus commented 6 years ago

Sorry, I didn't understand the question.

Well, this is an issue tracker for u8g2 library. Usually people report bugs in u8g2 library or request new enhancements to u8g2 library. So the question is, what is your exact request here for the u8g2 library?

ilyadesign commented 6 years ago

I just suggested adding the application to the repository.

olikraus commented 6 years ago

Difficult: I am not the author, I can not provide any support, it does not belong to u8g2, copyright is not clear.

samsam4 commented 6 years ago

Could you, please, post some working link to a repository with Fony 1.4.7 as the link http://hukka.ncn.fi/?fony seems dead long time ago :( I've got version 1.4.6 from softpedia.com and try to import few of the openiconic****.bdf, but it either crashes or doesn't show anything - not sure if the problem is with the Fony 1.4.6 or the fonts?

olikraus commented 6 years ago

reopend this... I will check whether I have a recent version of fony somewhere on my local drive.

open_iconic bdf files unfortunately are not proper bdf files. the open_iconc files are generated from png files with the help of a tool which I recently wrote. The generated bdf just contains enough information to allow bdfconv to work with it.

Reference: https://github.com/olikraus/u8g2/tree/master/tools/font/png2bdf https://github.com/olikraus/u8g2/tree/master/tools/font/bdfconv

olikraus commented 6 years ago

I also only have 1.4.7 on my drive.

samsam4 commented 6 years ago

That is the version what I'm looking for. Else the one that I score to download is an older one: 1.4.6

olikraus commented 6 years ago

Ok, then it is here for download: https://github.com/olikraus/u8g2/tree/master/tools/font/fony

hukkax commented 6 years ago

Author of Fony here. I have no problem with having it here for now. The server hosting my website had a failure recently but the site should be up in a couple of weeks, hopefully.

samsam4 commented 6 years ago

Thanks

olikraus commented 6 years ago

@hukkax Thanks for your great font editor and allowing us to keep a copy of it.

olikraus commented 6 years ago

http://hukka.ncn.fi/?fony is online :)

Secret-chest commented 1 year ago

Author of Fony here. I have no problem with having it here for now. The server hosting my website had a failure recently but the site should be up in a couple of weeks, hopefully.

Licence? Linux support?

olikraus commented 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, fony did work within "wine" on linux.

hukkax commented 1 year ago

Licence? Linux support?

License is closed-source Freeware. Win32 only, but I'd expect it to work on Linux via Wine. (This is an ancient project mostly made in Delphi 7.)

Secret-chest commented 1 year ago

License is closed-source Freeware. Win32 only, but I'd expect it to work on Linux via Wine. (This is an ancient project mostly made in Delphi 7.)

Oh ok, I don't use freeware, have to go with FontForge, sorry.

olikraus commented 1 year ago

Hmm... fontforge is freeware as well...

v1993 commented 1 year ago

FontForge is open-source, though. Freeware was likely meant in "free but closed-source" sense here.