Has anyone found a Font Conversion tool for OSX? BMFont is windows only and a Google search only turned up FontForge which has an option to export png fonts, but the option is always greyed out. Would be a shame if the only way to create appropriate fonts is on Windows.
If you're prepared to do the work you can create whatever fonts and icons you want. You just need to create a white on black bmp/png file with the characters mapped out in a .fnt file. Below is an example of an 24px A-Z font I have created. The maps are larger than the characters for character spacing. - Seems to me that you must have no less than 12 sequential char id's. I think this is a CIQ limitation. - You should create a filter in the resource file when you load your font. The characters are mapped to their ascii number. - Info on the .fnt file can be found here - If I remember rightly then the values CIQ is interested in are [file="ingram24b.png"] because that points to the image file, and [char id=65 x=1 y=2 width=21 height=26] because they map the image that will be used by CIQ. info face="ingram" size=26 bold=0 italic=0 charset="" unicode=1 stretchH=100 smooth=0 aa=1 padding=0,0,0,0 spacing=0,0 outline=0 common lineHeight=24 base=24 scaleW=256 scaleH=54 pages=1 packed=0 alphaChnl=0 redChnl=3 greenChnl=3 blueChnl=3 page id=0 file="ingram24b.png" chars count=29 char id=65 x=1 y=2 width=21 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=21 page=0 chnl=15 char id=66 x=22 y=2 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=67 x=40 y=2 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=68 x=58 y=2 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=69 x=76 y=2 width=16 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=16 page=0 chnl=15 char id=70 x=92 y=2 width=16 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=16 page=0 chnl=15 char id=71 x=108 y=2 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=72 x=126 y=2 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=73 x=145 y=2 width=7 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=7 page=0 chnl=15 char id=74 x=153 y=2 width=17 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=17 page=0 chnl=15 char id=75 x=170 y=2 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=76 x=188 y=2 width=15 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=15 page=0 chnl=15 char id=77 x=204 y=2 width=25 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=25 page=0 chnl=15 char id=78 x=229 y=2 width=19 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=19 page=0 chnl=15 char id=79 x=1 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=80 x=19 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=81 x=37 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=82 x=55 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=83 x=73 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=19 page=0 chnl=15 char id=84 x=91 y=28 width=19 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=19 page=0 chnl=15 char id=85 x=110 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15 char id=86 x=129 y=28 width=17 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=17 page=0 chnl=15 char id=87 x=147 y=28 width=27 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=27 page=0 chnl=15 char id=88 x=175 y=28 width=17 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=17 page=0 chnl=15 char id=89 x=194 y=28 width=17 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=17 page=0 chnl=15 char id=90 x=212 y=28 width=18 height=26 xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15
I hadn't bother to tweak all the settings, check that size=26 shouldn't be size=24, try removing the [xoffset=0 yoffset=0 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=15], etc... I imagine you could tidy this up some more and also save a few more bytes.
Has anyone found a Font Conversion tool for OSX? BMFont is windows only and a Google search only turned up FontForge which has an option to export png fonts, but the option is always greyed out. Would be a shame if the only way to create appropriate fonts is on Windows.
Drop me a PM, I use BMPFont on Mac, I simply wrapped it with Wineskin. So it runs 'natively' in a small windows VM on Mac! Hells yeah...
