Online Font Converter

[chrisjn52]

Is the online Font Converter working?

When using from https://ugfx.io/font-converter the browser drops through to https://fonts.ugfx.io/index.php whereupon it displays the "could not import font - bad file format" message. I am using windows font file arial.ttf and I cannot get it to work with any character filter.

I would use the built-in font converter in uGFX Studio but I want to restrict the conversion to a custom range to include the Greek Omega character and Studio won't allow a range beyond 255? Is there a way in uGFX Studio to limit the Custom Range to include just the Omega character, (U+03A9)? 

[Joel Bodenmann]

We've tracked the problem down to a source-IP based load-balancing issue. It should be fixed now.

[chrisjn52]

Hi Joel,

I am still seeing the same issue, although I now see the file upload percentage in the browser lower left corner which I don't recall seeing before.

It still complains about  "could not import font - bad file format" despite trying several different ttf fonts?

Should I see some sort of confirmation that the request is valid/has been accepted, once the "Get .c File" button is pressed?  (I haven't used the Font Converter for some time until recently).

[Joel Bodenmann]

I'm having serious trouble reproducing this - could someone else give it a try?

[chrisjn52]

Hi Joel,

I tried again this morning and I can confirm that there are two reasons why I have been having a problem.

The first is that the converter fails if the font file is selected directly from the Windows font folder, but works ok if the font is within some other folder. ?????

The second reason is that I was trying to obtain a large font and all font sizes over 20px fail for Arial.ttf causing the webpage to drop through to https://fonts.ugfx.io/index.php.

I also tried another font, (Candara), and font sizes >21 fail for this font. 

I used numeric only conversions to limit the file size in each case. 

Incidentally, I also found that it is necessary to refresh the browser page before attempting a second conversion request in order to get rid of the "No Entry" symbol when hovering over the "Get .C File" button.

Edited December 8, 2018 by chrisjn52

[Joel Bodenmann]

That sounds like a content-size / timeout related issue. I'll dive into this ASAP.

[chrisjn52]

The font converter is now working much better but the Custom Filter option doesn't allow the From field to be entered. Since this is coded as a Not Allowed field I am assuming this is due to a known issue with the McuFont converter?

Currently it would seem that in order to include a character such as the Omega symbol I have to use the No Filtering option but after several minutes I get the following response from the browser:

fonts.ugfx.io didn’t send any data.

ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

Many thanks for your support.

 

[inmarket]

Note you can also use the command line binaries for windows or Linux that are found in the repository under the tools directory.

The binaries have none of the restrictions of the web version.