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Tools and Modifications / Re: FOnline Font Utilities - FOFNT Maker/Text Splitter [PHOTOSHOP]

« on: December 16, 2013, 02:52:25 pm »

Looks like b__B over at the fodev forums beat me to a non-Photoshop solution - check it out: http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,29507.0.html

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Tools and Modifications / Re: FOnline Font Utilities - FOFNT Maker/Text Splitter [PHOTOSHOP]

« on: December 12, 2013, 06:12:12 pm »

I don't have photoshop either, I think your should make totally new project that doesn't need photoshop or other programs.

What would be preferable here? I could do a PHP/gd script, possibly something with HTML5/Javascript? GIMP doesn't support JSX/ExtendScript, however this could all be done (in theory) with ScriptFU. Let me know what would be the most useful here in the community and I'll see what I can do - sorry, no C++ here though

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Tools and Modifications / Re: FOnline Font Utilities - FOFNT Maker/Text Splitter [PHOTOSHOP]

« on: December 12, 2013, 02:26:04 pm »

Thanks for the tip - as you can tell, I'm not too familiar with the various communities yet. I've barely spent any time over at NMA...

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Tools and Modifications / FOnline Font Utilities - FOFNT Maker/Text Splitter [PHOTOSHOP]

« on: December 12, 2013, 02:20:59 am »

Well, in case you missed my earlier post here...I was having some trouble making a font. After a long day at work and most of it working on this, I present some easy-to-use tools to hopefully help others who want to make fonts.

The scripts are simple JavaScript (ExtendScript) for PhotoShop. I tested against CS6. One script splits a whole word into layers by character. Those can then be copied to another PSD. Once you've filled your target PSD with all of the characters for your font, you can use the other script to create an FOFNT file that FOnline understands.

Files are available on GitHub: https://github.com/phatsk/FOTools

Hope this helps someone else - after about 30 minutes to line up 4 characters I knew there had to be a better way...

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Tools and Modifications / Re: [n00b] Compiling Fonts

« on: December 11, 2013, 03:33:10 pm »

Well, I assumed binary...but I just opened up the .fofnt for the font I was editing and...it appears that it's just a text file  Well, mark this as solved...on to figuring out why my fonts didn't show then.

Thanks for the tips, I'll try to investigate a little more in the future but given the Terminal icon on the file, I was sure they were binary. Derp derp.

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Tools and Modifications / [n00b] Compiling Fonts

« on: December 11, 2013, 12:28:34 am »

Any tips on how to compile a new font from a PNG?

Edit: Figured it out - see this thread for tools http://forum.fonline-reloaded.net/index.php?topic=3192.0