Jimp: make jimp supporting otf font files

[MLiranG]

please make jimp supporting otf font files, its making me go crazy becuase there isn't any otf to fnt font converters.

please, send me a online converter or make jimp support otf font files

[hipstersmoothie]

@MLiranG i just used hiero (linked in the readme) to convert an otf font with ease. I'll look into supporting those font types but it might not be possible

[hipstersmoothie]

I just looked into it more. this requires canvas to be available for jimp to render the text chars.

To do this we would have to:

1. load font.
2. render chars to canvas
3. convert canvas to RGBA data

All the canvas for node implementations I have found require OS specific dependancies. This breaks the core rule of jimp "full javascript image manipulation".

If you can find a good way to convert ttf and otf fonts to bitmap data we can go forward with this. Soon I am gonna make a plugin system available and you could make your own way to load and print these font type. Otherwise I do not think this should be in jimp core.

[mattnotmitt]

Hey @MLiranG, I know I'm really late to this, but using BMFont by AngelCode I was able to convert an OTF font to .fnt - the software is a bit fiddly but it works great :)

[luco]

+1 on this

[sops21]

Hey @MLiranG, I know I'm really late to this, but using BMFont by AngelCode I was able to convert an OTF font to .fnt - the software is a bit fiddly but it works great :)

@mattnotmitt Do you have settings that you are using for BMFont by AngleCode? I keep getting buffer errors when I try and use it.

[mattnotmitt]

@sops21 I used it to convert an entire CJK font so I'm not sure how you've managed to do that 😅 - if you could give me a link to it I'll take a look for you!

[freezegr]

I don't have pc and i can't use BMFont by AngelCode

[MLiranG]

Hey @MLiranG, I know I'm really late to this, but using BMFont by AngelCode I was able to convert an OTF font to .fnt - the software is a bit fiddly but it works great :)

_only_ 2 years and 1 month thats ok

[chahatbahl]

Go to website https://ttf2fnt.com/
Upload your font in ttf format
Choose color, size, ... and click convert
You will get fnt format which works is bitmap format

It works !!!

[freezegr]

Go to website https://ttf2fnt.com/
Upload your font in ttf format
Choose color, size, ... and click convert
You will get fnt format which works is bitmap format

It works !!!

Thanks