A simple C program to turn selected characters from a TrueType font file into a .c/.h file pair such that the type can be embedded into the binary of a program. This is particularly useful for Embedded systems that may not have a file storage device.
Usage: fontem [OPTION...]
-f, --font=file Font filename (default: null)
-s, --size=integer Font size (default: 10)
-c, --chars=string List of characters to produce (default: "!@#$%^&*()_+-={}|[]\:";'<>?,./`~ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789")
-n, --name=file Output name (without extension) (default: null)
-d, --dir=dir Output directory (default: ".")
Help options:
-?, --help Show this help message
--usage Display brief usage message
mkdir -p fonts
./fontem --font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuMono-B.ttf \
--size=10 --name=ubuntumono --dir=fontsThis will generate two files, fonts/font-ubuntumono-10.c and
fonts/font-ubuntumono-10.h.
To use them, you will need to copy src/resource/fontem.h to the fonts
directory. Examples of these files may be found in the examples directory of
this repository.
The .c file contains descriptions of each character (glyph) that was
translated. At the end there is a lookup table mapping the glyphs to their
ASCII code. (Note that this table is indexed on the ordinal value of each
character; if you include high-valued UNICODE characters then this will make
for a large empty table; this shortcoming will be addressed in a future
revision.)
Along side GCC and GNU Autotools, this project depends on the libpopt and
libfreetype libraries.
On Ubuntu the build dependencies can be installed with:
sudo apt install build-essential automake autoconf libtool \
libpopt-dev libfreetype6-devAnd the runtime dependencies, if you need to move the program to another host, can be installed with:
sudo apt install libpopt0 libfreetype6This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License. See the LICENSE file at the top of this tree, or if it is missing a copy can be found at http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT