Hey there,

If you want to make an NFont bitmap image the fastest way I've found, you'll need to do the following:


Download "The Gimp"

Place render-nfont.scm into the Gimp's scripts folder
(mine is in GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts)

Run the Gimp and use the menu item Xtns->Script-Fu->NFont->Create NFont

Drag and drop your saved .png image (or whatever SDL_Image can handle) onto "NFont Maker.exe"

NFont Maker may not be perfect.  Take the output and make sure that there is no pink dot above and between the " double quote character (and if extended, the diaeresis, code 168).

There you go!  Load it up with NFont!



Alternately, you can draw your own fonts and put pink lines (rgb = 255/0/255) in the top row of the image to indicate spaces between characters.  Use these characters in this order (ASCII 33-126):
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~

or for extended ASCII (33-126 and 161-255):
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �

or in Unicode instead (note the soft hyphen, code 173 is replaced):
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ - ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ


-Jonny D