Error making atlas out of multiple fonts again

[BladePoint]

I am re-opening my previous issue, which still persists in version 2.5.4 on a Windows 10 administrator command prompt.

C:\>msdf-bmfont --reuse -o Atlas.png font1.ttf

Using following settings
========================================
version         : msdf-bmfont-xml v2.5.4
outputType      : xml
filename        : Atlas.png
fontSize        : 42
charsetFile     : Unspecified, fallback to ASC-II
textureSize     : 2048,2048
texturePadding  : 1
border          : 0
distanceRange   : 4
fieldType       : msdf
roundDecimal    : 0
vector          : false
reuse           : true
smartSize       : false
pot             : false
square          : false
rot             : false
rtl             : false
fontFile        : font1.ttf
========================================
No valid charset file loaded, fallback to ASC-II
Warning: no bitmap for character ' ' (32), adding to font as empty

Generation complete!

wrote font file        :  font1.fnt
wrote cfg file         :  Atlas.cfg
wrote spritesheet[ 0 ] :  Atlas.png

C:\>msdf-bmfont -u Atlas.cfg font2.ttf

Using following settings
========================================
version         : msdf-bmfont-xml v2.5.4
outputType      : xml
filename        : font2
fontSize        : 42
charsetFile     : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
textureSize     : 2048,2048
texturePadding  : 1
border          : 0
distanceRange   : 4
fieldType       : msdf
roundDecimal    : 0
vector          : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
reuse           : Atlas.cfg
smartSize       : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
pot             : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
square          : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
rot             : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
rtl             : Defined in [Atlas.cfg]
fontFile        : font2.ttf
========================================
File:  Atlas.cfg  not valid! Aborting...

I also tried specifying the full path for the like this, msdf-bmfont --reuse C:\Atlas.cfg font2.ttf but the result was the same.

[soimy]

Can you post your font project and post here? So I can try to reproduce your problem. Thanks!

[BladePoint]

Sure, here is a zippyshare link to a zip of font1.ttf, font2.tff, and the atlas.cfg. I should mention that msdf-bmfont-xml works great for me if I do only 1 font at a time. It only causes problems when I try to combine 2 fonts into 1 atlas. I know I could do it separately, then edit the 2 .png files into 1 atlas and edit the x and y coordinates in the .fnt file, but then the characters are not packed in as tightly and there is some wasted space.

Thank you for all your hard work!

[matse4]

Hi, I have the same problem as blade-point. I would like to like to use 3 different Fonts to create one Atlas and .fnt file but get an error at the second command.

Is there any known workaround?

[pixtur]

Same issue here...

c:\Users\pixtur\coding\node>msdf-bmfont --reuse -o atlas.png -m 512,256 -s 42 -r 3 -p 1 -t msdf Roboto-Black.ttf

Using following settings
========================================
version         : msdf-bmfont-xml v2.5.4
outputType      : xml
filename        : atlas.png
fontSize        : 42
charsetFile     : Unspecified, fallback to ASC-II
textureSize     : 512,256
texturePadding  : 1
border          : 0
distanceRange   : 3
fieldType       : msdf
roundDecimal    : 0
vector          : false
reuse           : true
smartSize       : false
pot             : false
square          : false
rot             : false
rtl             : false
fontFile        : Roboto-Black.ttf
========================================
No valid charset file loaded, fallback to ASC-II
Warning: no bitmap for character ' ' (32), adding to font as empty

Generation complete!

wrote spritesheet[ 0 ] :  atlas.png
wrote cfg file         :  atlas.cfg
wrote font file        :  Roboto-Black.fnt

c:\Users\pixtur\coding\node>msdf-bmfont -v -u atlas.cfg -t sdf -p 0 -r 8 Roboto-Light.ttf

Using following settings
========================================
version         : msdf-bmfont-xml v2.5.4
outputType      : xml
filename        : Roboto-Light
fontSize        : 42
charsetFile     : Defined in [atlas.cfg]
textureSize     : 2048,2048
texturePadding  : 0
border          : 0
distanceRange   : 8
fieldType       : sdf
roundDecimal    : 0
vector          : true
reuse           : atlas.cfg
smartSize       : Defined in [atlas.cfg]
pot             : Defined in [atlas.cfg]
square          : Defined in [atlas.cfg]
rot             : Defined in [atlas.cfg]
rtl             : Defined in [atlas.cfg]
fontFile        : Roboto-Light.ttf
========================================
File:  atlas.cfg  not valid! Aborting...

This is the created config file: https://gist.github.com/pixtur/11a7ab0de236d491af79c31a22c7db93

Is there an earlier version, I could use as a work around?

[DauMoe]

Hi @soimy, I got the same issue on Window 10 22H2 as well but it works fine on MacOS 13.6.7. It throws File ***.cfg not valid! Aborting... even using the relative path. The root cause came from is-invalid-path library. It return false even the path is correct. Could we use path.existsSync instead?