Re: Font generation

Re: Font generation

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Ssagarr Patil <hugarsagar@outlook.com> wrote:
> How do we generate the fonts is there any tool to do it ? I was looking at the fbtest tool which has predefined fonts for sun which says its generated
> by cpi2fnt but I didnt find any tool to do that.
>
> Any pointers on this would be much helpful.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id\x15635

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Font generation

[Ssagarr Patil]

Hi,

Not sure if this query belongs to this forum sorry for that!

How do we generate the fonts is there any tool to do it ? I was looking at the fbtest tool which has predefined fonts for sun which says its generated
by cpi2fnt but I didnt find any tool to do that.

Any pointers on this would be much helpful.

Thanks & Regards,
-Sagar
 		 	   		  

RE: Font generation

[Ssagarr Patil]

Hi Geert,

>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Ssagarr Patil <hugarsagar@outlook.com> wrote:
>> How do we generate the fonts is there any tool to do it ? I was looking at the fbtest tool which has predefined fonts for sun which says its generated
>> by cpi2fnt but I didnt find any tool to do that.
>>
>> Any pointers on this would be much helpful.
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id\x15635
>
Thanks for the pointers, I tried xxd/convert/font2c but nothing worked out for me!
In the fbtest how is the penguin_data[] and clut [] array populated ?

Thanks & Regards,
-Sagar

 		 	   		  

Re: Font generation

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Sagar,

> Thanks for the pointers, I tried xxd/convert/font2c but nothing worked out for me!
> In the fbtest how is the penguin_data[] and clut [] array populated ?

They're created from images/penguin.ppm using pnmtohex/pnmtohex.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

RE: Font generation

[Ssagarr Patil]

Hi Geert,

> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:35:35 +0100
> Subject: Re: Font generation
> From: geert@linux-m68k.org
> To: hugarsagar@outlook.com
> CC: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
>
> Hi Sagar,
>
>> Thanks for the pointers, I tried xxd/convert/font2c but nothing worked out for me!
>> In the fbtest how is the penguin_data[] and clut [] array populated ?
>
> They're created from images/penguin.ppm using pnmtohex/pnmtohex.c.
>
Thanks!

Are there any font rendering library to display on small oleds using framebuffer ?
something similar to what test10 in fbtest does.

Thanks & Regards,
--Sagar