Ok this one took quite a while (2 days) BUT here is a sample of the font. I call it "Nuts-N-Bolts"





I still need to fix the baseline. Which brings me to a new request TRAN! I know you have the code set to see a horizontal path and set the text according to that. BUT what about a path NODE to set the baseline? Is that possible? You wouldn't want to set it for say lower case y for example so it would be nice to just add a node to those layers that need the baseline corrected.

the script was super badly written it's really hard to look at it.
when you define your letters, think about how all other letters of the alphabet fit into layer's size.
so the letter a for example should have some empty space at bottom so that the y can take of the bottom.
i only did the path layer to define width and placement of character horizontally because the letters might have decorations hangout on the left/right hand side... any other decorations that might change the height of the letter will have to be considered like the letter y situation when designing the font. then line spacing can be used so quish lines together.

EDIT: I think i can use the same path that's named for example "y.png" to define both the width (currently does this) and now just make it a diagonal line to define height... but i'll break all the previous fonts that has paths defined that just have a horizontal line it'll think that the characters are 0 pixels or some super short character if i add this code. hmmm.

Thank you Wallace.

@ Tran - i suppose the fix lies in the user NOT merging the layers so they can be aligned manually. I have tried everything but alas this is the best i can do. I did resize all layers to image size.

Letter spacing set to - " -250"


Letter spacing set to - " -250"


Letter spacing set to - "0"


Seems like the same trouble we had with Photofont all over again. None of the letters space exactly even. Adjusting kerning doesn't seem to work either.

Well i uploaded it here (20MB) if anyone wants to check it out.
download link
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rods-c ... les/files/

This is Letter Spacing set to - "-400"

Actually i can create PHF files with or without embedded images so it just makes a separate directory of the image png files. So i will most likely redo all the current PHF files to XCF font format.

For instance... This was converted from PHF to XCF.
Author of the font images - http://mediamilitia.com/shattered-3d-font-free/

"Shattered" 218 MB size file. VERY high res all caps only.

download link
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rods-c ... les/files/

That last font is SICK

For the letters you can define a path with same name as layer and draw a two point horizontal line to tell it where the letter is and it ll use that info instead of layer width the script already does this if a path is defined for whatever letter

I tried this already and it doesn't seem to work with the nuts and bolts font. I created a path same name as layer g.png and placed a path node set smack in the center of the g and the exact width and it still won't cuddle next to any other letters "abcdef g" for example.

If you think that font is sick you should see the complete version of the font.

Here is a letter R in full res. Go ahead click the R its HUUUUGE!!

I have all the PHF files in image sets and will begin adding them here soon.

Wallace Pipes

Download here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rods-c ... les/files/



That s and r just don't like me I got the size down though!

Believe i fixed the r and s now please re download and test.

love that shattered, I got a thing for polygons too.
That font would be so sick on a large billboard because of all the details.

Wow Rod, that was fast! Rod to the rescue!!!!!! I'm glad you did because it was going slowly for me as I have never done this before. I might still try just to see if I can do it.

Just catching up with this topic - after a couple of weeks of work on my own project - and will probably take me a week at least to get through all this. Absolutely brilliant stuff. Well done to all concerned.

You should just make one of your own design. It was real easy to just open the PHF and export every image in the font. They were all auto named to the name of the glyph so its just a matter of opening the image directory in GIMP, fixing the boundaries and naming the XCF file for use. Oh i did have to add a "space.png" layer also. Some layers had to be re named but no biggy.

Here is Jeans redone to XCF from PHF font file.

download link
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rods-c ... les/files/



I wonder if it is possible to write a python module to open a PHF file in GIMP. Its just xml and base64.

Rod: What script do I need to open a phf file, if I find one I might try? I tried to open one the other day but could not.

You can open ANY PHF file in Notepad ++ but you cannot open or extract the image files from one without commercial software. It really would be nice to be able to open base64 images in GIMP. "hint ...hint" to Python coders.

There really are not that many PHF files created so i have no problem converting them all. In fact i already have. Just tidying them up a bit. Then i will post them.


IF you want to create more PHF files for PhotoStart...
You can alternatively use the PHF file i posted here.
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3827

This is a PHF file i wrote that will allow you to use NON EMBEDDED base64 image code. You can thus have a directory of images the PHF file calls from. Of course this is if you want to use the PHF file in Photofont Start. Which seems to now be obsolete. Thank you Tran!!!