BDF2MCPack

BDF2MCPack is a CLI application to convert a BDF type font file to a resource pack for Minecraft.
The application requires Python 3.7 or above.

Installation

Windows, Linux and MacOS

Use pip to install the module.

pip install bdf2mcpack

Make sure that the executable file (bdf2mcpack.exe or bdf2mcpack) is installed under a directory which is set in the PATH environment variable.

Usage

Help Message

usage: bdf2mcpack [-h] [-o output] [--format FORMAT] [--description DESCRIPTION]
                  [--compresslevel {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}] [--range [RANGE ...]]
                  input

Creates a resource pack for Minecraftfrom a BDF type file.

positional arguments:
  input                 The filename of the BDF file to load

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o output             The Filename of the resource pack to create (default:
                        pack.zip)
  --format FORMAT, -f FORMAT
                        The value to set as pack.pack_format in pack.mcmeta
                        (default: 18)
  --description DESCRIPTION, -d DESCRIPTION
                        The text to set as pack.description in pack.mcmeta
                        (default: "Generated by bdf2mcpack")
  --compresslevel {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, -c {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
                        The compression level used when writing the output file
                        (default: 6)
  --range [RANGE ...], -r [RANGE ...]
                        The Unicode codepoint range to use. Accepts decimal or
                        hexadecimal expressions of codepoints. Case insensitive.
                        e.g. 0-127 U+100000-U+10FFFF

Example

This example downloads Unifont Japanese BDF Version, and creates a resource pack to replace ideographic Chinese Characters with Japanese Kanji.

curl -O https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.1.04/font-builds/unifont_jp-15.1.04.bdf.gz
gunzip unifont_jp-15.1.04.bdf.gz
bdf2mcpack unifont_jp-15.1.04.bdf -o kanji.zip -r U+4E00-U+9FFF

Used Libraries

• bdfparser
• Pillow
• tqdm

License

This program is distributed under Apache-2.0 license.