Comments on: How to create TrueType from an image http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Potter http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-141093 Sun, 09 May 2010 18:07:04 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-141093 Fantastic work. I’ve been after a VT font for ages. I’m now using it in PuTTY. If anybody wants to know the correct setting to get all the line drawing characters etc, feel free to email me via the link on my site.

]]> By: svofski http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-105005 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:15:13 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-105005 It should be used at sizes that result in pixel heights that are multiples of 20. Otherwise, interlaced lines just don’t work right, I probably can’t help it. I don’t know many terminal programs that don’t allow setting custom size (like 15): if the size is not in the list, usually you can enter it manually. Some font scalers are better than others, too.

@tnt23: arduino debugging must be much easier with this font in the serial terminal ;)

]]> By: Joe Knight http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104992 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:59:03 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104992 If only it could be used on a standard size such as 14 or 16…

]]> By: tnt23 http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104983 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:18:17 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104983 I wonder how Viacheslav managed to not use Arduino!

]]> By: shadow http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104908 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:31:07 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104908 Holy shit, an actual hack on hack-a-day, surely there must be be an arduino hidden somewhere

]]> By: justin http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104874 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:23:14 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104874 It’s nice and retro, but I prefer bitmapped fonts.

I use “LucidaTypewriter sans” at 9pt (no bold allowed), which makes the text in gnome-terminal look exactly like the old Solaris OpenWindows ‘cmdtool’.

]]> By: alex http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104860 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:53:40 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104860 hahaha oh wow. that looks awesome. good job man!

i just changed my terminal font to this and traveled through time to about 20 years ago

]]> By: Alpha http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104836 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:09:38 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104836 This is cool!
It also reminds me.. I made an online ANSI char viewer thing for viewing text reminiscent of the old BBS days.
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/ansi/

]]> By: zokier http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104830 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:39:14 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104830 seems kinda silly to vectorize and and make truetype font, which then works only in one size. wouldn’t a bitmap font or something work better?

]]> By: Mike Szczys http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104822 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:03:30 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104822 @PunMaster: Thanks, fixed.

]]> By: Andrew Yeomans http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104816 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:39:16 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104816 Brings back memories! The neat thing about real VT200s is that they had a programmable font set. So naturally I created an upside-down version. Good for a laugh on April Fool’s day, just had to transmit the upside-down font to the VT220.

]]> By: PunMaster http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/comment-page-1/#comment-104812 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:28:42 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17935#comment-104812 Your “VT220″ link just goes to the Wikipedia main page… :(

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