fontdef

This utility allow you to generate font atlas from a ttf font with desiderated font size and resolution. A fontdef file is also generated to allow ogre to import it as a resource. This utility is also used for general purpose games The generated image as power of two side dimensions.

usage

-h [ --help ]                         produce this message
-i [ --input-ttf ] arg                input ttf filename
-t [ --title-font-resource ] arg      name of font to use
-f [ --image-filename ] arg           output image filename
-s [ --size ] arg (=32)               True type size
-r [ --resolution ] arg (=96)         True type resolution
--charachter-space arg (=5)           Spacing between characters to prevent 
                                      overlap artifacts
--pixel-size arg (=1)                 pixel size in bytes of output image
-o [ --fontdef-filename ] arg (=out.fontdef)
                                      outupt fontdef file
-a [ --append ]                       use if you want to append to an 
                                      existing fontdef
-v [ --verbose ] arg (=0)             verbose level [0-3]
--use-antialias-color arg (=0)        use antialias color
-c [ --codepoint ] arg (=33-166)      range of cod points nn-nn ...

Dependencies

fontdef depends from boost-program-options, boost-filesystem,freeimage and freetype

Build

git clone https://github.com/edukaj/fontdef
cd fontdef
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Linux

On linux just type

sudo apt install libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-system-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev

code

or for older Ubuntu (like 14.04 and previous)

sudo apt-get install libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-system-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev

after installed this dependencies follow the instruction below:

To create a redistributable debian package I've also created a simple script:

cd ..
./make-deb
sudo dpkg -i fontdef*.deb

In this way you can use the really useful auto-complete when using the utility

Package

I've alse created a bash script called build-deb that allow you to create a distributable package for an easier installation.

The usage is really simple build-deb version generated-binary where version must be something like major.minor-revision for example

build-deb 1.0-0 
sudo dpkg -i fontdef_1.0-0.deb

windows

Not tested

download that libraries and set fontdef.pro

Maybe some modification are required.