Hi,
I'm working on a simple font designer to produce char sets to use with Max72xx and Parola libraries.
While it doesn't do nothing that you can't do with the 'official' font designer, it is a solution for the ones that don't use MS Office.
It is still a work in progress and with at least one pesky bug (double height chars do not show up on the stripe) but I'd like to have some feedback from someone that does use Parola.
Looks interesting. Once this is finished, let me know and I can distribute a link as part of the MD_Parola releases. If you find the tool useful chances are others will also.
Just to let you know that there is a command line version of the font builder that does not use MS Office. takes a text file as input and outputs the font .h file. It is referenced/explained in the online docs and also explained in my blog at Parola A to Z – Defining Fonts – Arduino++.
marco_c:
Looks interesting. Once this is finished, let me know and I can distribute a link as part of the MD_Parola releases. If you find the tool useful chances are others will also.
Ok, I will.
Just to let you know that there is a command line version of the font builder that does not use MS Office. takes a text file as input and outputs the font .h file. It is referenced/explained in the online docs and also explained in my blog at Parola A to Z – Defining Fonts – Arduino++.
Yes, I noticed that but I need to have a better idea of how the char will look on the matrix.
The 1st time I played with a led matrix, and before I find Parola I was using some lib that did not supported text, so I had to roll my own text functions, I ended up doing something very similar, a text file with the bit patterns and a perl script to write out the array definition.
I'd like to compliment you about the font format, storing the column values instead of row values is quite clever.
