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.