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8 years, 3 months ago.
Big Font STM32F746G Discovery
Hello everybody, I need help for create or import biggest or custom font for DISCO-F746NG or for DISCO-F469NI. Thanks.
2 Answers
8 years ago.
With a small disclaimer first - I haven't used the DISCO parts or SW. Instead, I have leveraged the mikro font tool, and created a font-driver, for a different display controller. Perhaps there is some value in there that will help in your work. I think the memory footprint is probably smaller with this toolset.
https://developer.mbed.org/users/WiredHome/notebook/soft-fonts---ra8875/
8 years, 3 months ago.
I need to do the same thing. Have a look at the board support package (BSP) for the STM32F746G-DISCO here https://developer.mbed.org/teams/ST/code/BSP_DISCO_F746NG/. You can check the required font file format by looking at font24.c, for example. There are a number of font creation programs for embedded systems from sources like Segger and mikroElektronika however I haven't yet had the time to explore the means to convert the output from these into the required font file format. Hope this helps a little.
yes thanks I found this software to convert font on c code : https://github.com/pavius/the-dot-factory But i dont know how to use it
posted by 21 Aug 2016I found the following for converting fonts to C source here http://larsee.dk/converting-fonts-to-c-source-using-bmfont2c/. It's a two-step process and requires a bit of a fiddle to get working but it appears to generate output very close to the required font file format. A bit of editing of the output file or modification of the Python program is required. The Dot Factory program you found looks good too.
posted by 24 Aug 2016