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Title: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: mrplant on 2014-Nov-21
Hi There.

A bit annoying but when I use the font creator tool to create a custom font - it sometimes cuts off the right hand side of the image.
It shows itself up every time if you change say the background colour to red for example and the text color to black. Tick resize to a certain size e.g.. 1024x512 and generate - the file is corrupted as described.
Change the text colour to white and the background to black and it works fine.
This happens for any non black background colour by the way. It also happens with any font.

Any way of this one getting fixed?

I generated a lot of fonts and inverted colour fonts and this bug is quite annoying and has been present for a few years now I just forget to post about it.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: erico on 2014-Nov-21
Does that happen when you work with PNG or BMP? or it dosen´t matter?
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: kanonet on 2014-Nov-21
You may want to try blastars great font creator replacement (http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=6421.0), that has way more options then original Dingsfont. Of cause a bug fix would still be nice, as long as the old creator does not get replaced.
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: mrplant on 2014-Nov-23
Happens if generating a BMP or PNG.

Wow - going to check out that other font tool. Thanks for info.
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: erico on 2014-Nov-23
You didn´t know about that alternative?
Well, now you do, it is a great piece of software and we should probably look into adding it to the standard tool set.
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: Schranz0r on 2014-Nov-24
Yes we should think about this!
It's a very nice Fonteditor!
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: Moru on 2014-Nov-24
Everyone else is using that one so I guess that is why the original bug never got fixed :-)
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: Schranz0r on 2014-Nov-24
Should be the reason, right ^^
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: mrplant on 2014-Nov-24
Hi

I wasn't aware of this great tool no!

Its great but I need one thing it doesn't seem to do. I want characters like the old font generator does - Totally centred left right up and down within each square as this is the type of 8 bit font types I am working with.

At the moment, it seems to left align the text in the boxes.

Is this possible?
Title: Re: Bug In Font Creator Tool
Post by: kanonet on 2014-Nov-24
Maybe better ask the developer, if you want some features to be added.