{"id":436,"date":"2012-10-04T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T10:11:32","slug":"introduction-to-the-glcd-font-editor-in-bitmap2lcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/introduction-to-the-glcd-font-editor-in-bitmap2lcd\/","title":{"rendered":"The GLCD Font Editor in Bitmap2LCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Bitmap2LCD is a tool for programming small Graphic LCDs in embedded systems.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The GLCD Font Editor in Bitmap2LCD<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Standard Edition<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since Standard Edition V2.2 and upwards, Bitmap2LCD features a <strong>GLCD font editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The already before existing <strong>font script<\/strong> component, is only based on imports\u00a0of characters\u00a0out of\u00a0 the installed Windows system fonts, with no\u00a0possibility to\u00a0edit the pixels.<\/p>\n<p>The new <strong>GLCD font editor<\/strong> feature gives this capacity of editing the fonts and\/or to create new characters and icons.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>GLCD <\/strong><strong>font editor<\/strong> component\u00a0is called &#8220;<strong>Editable Font\u00a0<\/strong>&#8221; and the associated functions can be found in the main menu, see\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bitmap2LCD-Font-Menu.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-437 aligncenter\" title=\"Bitmap2LCD Font Menu\" src=\"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bitmap2LCD-Font-Menu.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open an existing Editable Font File (*.EFF)<\/li>\n<li>Create an Editable\u00a0font from\u00a0 scratch<\/li>\n<li>Quit the Editable Font Edition Mode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>GLCD font editor\u00a0<\/strong>possibilities are shown\u00a0below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bitmap2LCD-Font-Editor-Block.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-440 aligncenter\" title=\"Bitmap2LCD Font Editor Block\" src=\"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bitmap2LCD-Font-Editor-Block.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ Editable Fonts : up to 256 colors ]<\/p>\n<p>An Editable Font file created with Bitmap2LCD, is saved in a *.EFF file with his associated\u00a0GIF file,\u00a0all\u00a0single characters bitmaps\u00a0being saved in the frames of a GIF animation. The GIF\u00a0becomes a sort of catalogue of images.<\/p>\n<p>The Editable font GIF file can also be\u00a0displayed in the GIF file reader\u00a0, like a normal animation. 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The GLCD Font Editor in Bitmap2LCD Standard Edition Since Standard Edition V2.2 and upwards, Bitmap2LCD features a GLCD font editor The already before existing font script component, is only based on imports\u00a0of characters\u00a0out of\u00a0 the installed Windows system fonts, with no\u00a0possibility to\u00a0edit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[169,168,13,673,172,170,171,173],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glcd-font-editor","tag-create-a-font","tag-font-for-lcd","tag-glcd-font","tag-glcd-font-editor","tag-graphc-lcd-font","tag-lcd-ceator","tag-lcd-font-maker","tag-special-font-for-glcd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitmap2lcd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}