is ugfx font converter still working?

[enrico.dallavia]

Hello, I've tried to generate file for custom fonts from uGfx online convert, but I got always "could not import font".

I have a ttf font (whom I can preview from linux or windows). I tried also with other font from linux system but without success.

Any suggestion?

Thanks!

[Joel Bodenmann]

Our server was recently updated and the update included a new PHP version. It looks like the update broke the font converter.

Unfortunately we are currently very busy and we won't have time to look into this ASAP.

We are currently thinking of either writing a dedicated desktop application for this or include the functionality into the uGFX-Studio.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

~ Tectu

[enrico.dallavia]

Thanks for the answer,

it will be very helpful to have a dedicated application instead of relying on web only.

Is there any specification I can look into to try to do it myself? because within a month I think I will need the custom fonts.

[Joel Bodenmann]

uGFX internally uses mcufont as the author of mcufont was kind enough to provide us with a public domain license so we can include it in uGFX. The mcufont repository provides the sources for the font encoder. You can try building the binary from the sources.

~ Tectu

[enrico.dallavia]

Thanks, it works fine!!

./mcufont import_ttf Quicksand-Regular.ttf 12, -> the command's output is the Quicksand-Regular12.dat file

./mcufont rlefont_export Quicksand-Regular12.dat myfont.c -> gave as output myfont.c file, rename it in userfonts.h to be able to use it inside ugfx

[Joel Bodenmann]

Thank you for letting us know that you got it working!

We will try to write a dedicated desktop app for this in the future. But right know we have to get some other stuff done first.

~ Tectu

[Joel Bodenmann]

The online font converter is up and running again.

Thank you for reporting this issue.

~ Tectu