MikroElektronika Forum

I am using GLCD Font Creator to generate fonts for an open-source 3D printer control panel (see http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?340,391515). Flash memory is quite tight, so I need to reduce the size of the generated font tables. Two approaches come to mind:

1. For each character, store exactly the number of data columns specified in the column count for that character, instead of having a lot of trailing zeros. Obviously this will make finding individual characters slower, but if necessary I can pre-calculate the offsets of e.g. every 16th character.

2. Instead of using a whole number of bytes to store each column, pack the data. For example, if a font is 20 pixels high then instead of storing 1 column in 3 bytes, store 2 columns in 5 bytes.

But to do either of these, I need source code so that I can add extra output options, or I need to write a program to parse the generated code back into a bitmap and output it again. Is source code available? I am happy to sign an NDA if that helps.

I have read this post a couple of times and each time I think my response is the same. I think this is a call to MikroE to ask if they would be willing to share the source. I suspect not without a compelling business case but it's certainly worth a try.

Gotta say that it's disappointing that MikroE appear to have not responded to this post themselves suggesting further contact or with a "no way hosay"response. Perhaps they have already done that privately. Who knows, not me


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No, I haven't received a reply from MikroE. I guess my other option is to reverse engineer the format of the font project file, and write a program to generate code from it in the form I want.

Hi,

I apologize for not answering before.

The Glcd Font Creator creates the fonts according to the Microchip Graphics Library document :
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/A ... 01182b.pdf

Regards,
Filip.