https://github.com/superilu/grxfntconv

Convert TTF or BDF fonts to GRX format used by (M)GRX, Allegro, etc
https://github.com/superilu/grxfntconv

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Convert TTF or BDF fonts to GRX format used by (M)GRX, Allegro, etc

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/superilu/grxfntconv
• Owner: SuperIlu
• License: other
• Created: 2021-08-15T15:32:50.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-01T17:08:54.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T14:00:01.548Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: allegro, bdf, bdf-font, converter, font, grx, ttf
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 211 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# GrxFntConv

This tool (aka "dirty hack") can be used to convert TTF or BDF fonts to the GRX format used by [DOjS](https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS), [Allegro](https://liballeg.org/), [MGRX](http://www.fgrim.com/mgrx/) and [GRX](http://grx.gnu.de/).

It uses [libschrift](https://github.com/tomolt/libschrift) for loading and rendering TTFs and MGRX code to write out GRX, FNA and GRX-as-C-source output. The BDF parser was cobbled together by me w/o documentation just using some examples and the english Wikipedia page.

When converting fonts make sure the resuting filename ends with ".FNT", other extensions do not work with Allegro.

I might provide pre-compiled DOS, Linux and Win32 binaries later...

## Usage

```

Usage:

  fntconv [-cf]   

```

Please note: the `-f` flag is only for testing purposes and `-c` generates C code to be compiled into you program. Both flags should not be used when converting fonts to be loaded from disk with Allegro or GRX. Also: both flags are quite untested!

## License

My code and everything MGRX is licensed under GPLv2 (see LICENSE).

Libschrift is licensed under ISC (see libschrift/LICENSE).

## Disclaimer

Because I have absolutely no clue about font rendering I took several shortcuts when calculation offsets, sizes and other stuff. So expect weird results and warning messages when using this!