topic emWin modifying font in LPC Microcontrollers https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/emWin-modifying-font/m-p/514983#M961 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by harper23 on Wed Feb 19 08:22:30 MST 2014</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>I am using the version 5.18 of emWin BSP downloaded from the LPCware site. It includes the font converter that allows creating and modifying font.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a small XBF font consisting of just a few digits. I want to add one character (dash) to that font. For that purpose I created a new font with one character and saved it in XBF format. Each XBF file has a size of about 2 kBytes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I load the original XBF font file and use the menu File/Merge XBF I get a font that consist all characters I want. But when I save this font (in XBF format) the file size is 56k !</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[list=1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; [*]What is the best way to modify a font adding character(s)?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; [*]Why does the file size increase with the factor of about 20?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; [*]Is there any documentation for the XBF format so that I could manage the file with my own tool set?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[/list]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know I could reverse engineer the file format, but this would be too much effort and I think this would break the licensing rules. So I won't do that.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:14:50 GMT lpcware 2016-06-15T17:14:50Z emWin modifying font https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/emWin-modifying-font/m-p/514983#M961 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by harper23 on Wed Feb 19 08:22:30 MST 2014</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>I am using the version 5.18 of emWin BSP downloaded from the LPCware site. It includes the font converter that allows creating and modifying font.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a small XBF font consisting of just a few digits. I want to add one character (dash) to that font. For that purpose I created a new font with one character and saved it in XBF format. Each XBF file has a size of about 2 kBytes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I load the original XBF font file and use the menu File/Merge XBF I get a font that consist all characters I want. But when I save this font (in XBF format) the file size is 56k !</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[list=1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; [*]What is the best way to modify a font adding character(s)?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; [*]Why does the file size increase with the factor of about 20?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; [*]Is there any documentation for the XBF format so that I could manage the file with my own tool set?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[/list]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know I could reverse engineer the file format, but this would be too much effort and I think this would break the licensing rules. So I won't do that.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:14:50 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/emWin-modifying-font/m-p/514983#M961 lpcware 2016-06-15T17:14:50Z