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Added support for configuring image descriptor format (bitsbytes).

These fonts are then uploaded via the LCD driver (see the Drivers and Modules page for a few) to the actual dot matrix LCD.

It is written in C for Visual Studio 2008 and has been tested on Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7 and Linux via Mono.

The actual LCD controller allows us to upload simple visual data (dot on or dot off) into the LCDs dot matrix, but not much else.

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It is up to our software to decide what to upload when we want to draw lines, circles and more importantly text.

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Consequently, we must store the exact appearance of a character as a series of 1s and 0s, equivalent to a dot on dot off on the LCD, and upload this as a bitmap when we want to display text.

While it is possible to generate this manually, it is desired to have a tool to do our grunt work by converting windows fonts (given a size and decoration) into a series of bitmaps.

The input pane can accept either a font of your choice (for writing text to the LCD) or an image.

When generating a font, you have the option of either generating all the available letters (by selecting All in the Insert Text box and clicking the plus button) or by typing in which letters, numbers or symbols you are actually using in your application (for example: 0123abcd).

If you are writing a simple application that has only a few sentences, you can type them wholly in this box without fear of duplicating letters TDF takes care of that by discarding any duplicates.

If you are using the LCD drivers on this website, you want it to generate an MSb first output, otherwise images will come out wrong.

If you have a compiler that supports the 0b binary specifier, you can select binary rather than hex.

This will allow you to visually see the pixels you will set and allow for manual touch up by the user without having to calculate hex and experimentation.

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Click generate and your C code will be outputted to the text box below.

Copy paste this into your application (it is recommended to put this in a separate module, not your LCD driver module, for organizational reasons).

While some TTF fonts can render characters this small they are usually distorted to the point of uselessness.

I ripped this font from text file a while ago, so apologies to the uncredited author.

When the LCD driver needs to find where character X is located in the bitmap array, it will jump to index X - font.startCharacter in the descriptor array.

The startCharacter is the first character (that is, the character with the lowest ASCII value) used for this font.

By defining a startCharacter we can reduce the number of elements in the descriptor array.

It holds information regarding this font like the name of the character bitmap and descriptor arrays, the font start character and how many pixels wide a space character is for this font.

The LCD driver will replace the space character with empty pixels (this saves both processing time, space in the character bitmap array and space in the character descriptor array since the space is the first ASCII character and is commonly used).

For image generation, only the images bitmap array and size descriptors are generated.

When enough users request something I invest the time to add it.