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A library for manipulating Portable Compiled Format (PCF) Fonts.

Project description

PcfFont

Python PyPI

PcfFont is a library for manipulating Portable Compiled Format (PCF) Fonts.

Installation

pip install pcffont

Usage

Load

import os
import shutil

from examples import assets_dir, build_dir
from pcffont import PcfFont


def main():
    outputs_dir = os.path.join(build_dir, 'load')
    if os.path.exists(outputs_dir):
        shutil.rmtree(outputs_dir)
    os.makedirs(outputs_dir)

    font = PcfFont.load(os.path.join(assets_dir, 'unifont', 'unifont-15.1.05.pcf'))
    print(f'name: {font.properties.font}')
    print(f'size: {font.properties.pixel_size}')
    print(f'ascent: {font.accelerators.font_ascent}')
    print(f'descent: {font.accelerators.font_descent}')
    print()
    for encoding, glyph_index in sorted(font.bdf_encodings.items()):
        glyph_name = font.glyph_names[glyph_index]
        metric = font.metrics[glyph_index]
        bitmap = font.bitmaps[glyph_index]
        print(f'char: {chr(encoding)} ({encoding:04X})')
        print(f'glyph_name: {glyph_name}')
        print(f'advance_width: {metric.character_width}')
        print(f'dimensions: {metric.dimensions}')
        print(f'origin: {metric.origin}')
        for bitmap_row in bitmap:
            text = ''.join(map(str, bitmap_row)).replace('0', '  ').replace('1', '██')
            print(f'{text}*')
        print()
    font.save(os.path.join(outputs_dir, 'unifont-15.1.05.pcf'))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Create

import os
import shutil

from examples import build_dir
from pcffont import PcfFontBuilder, PcfGlyph


def main():
    outputs_dir = os.path.join(build_dir, 'create')
    if os.path.exists(outputs_dir):
        shutil.rmtree(outputs_dir)
    os.makedirs(outputs_dir)

    builder = PcfFontBuilder()
    builder.configs.font_ascent = 14
    builder.configs.font_descent = 2

    builder.glyphs.append(PcfGlyph(
        name='A',
        encoding=ord('A'),
        scalable_width=500,
        character_width=8,
        dimensions=(8, 16),
        origin=(0, -2),
        bitmap=[
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
            [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
            [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
            [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0],
            [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
            [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
            [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
            [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
        ],
    ))

    builder.properties.foundry = 'Pixel Font Studio'
    builder.properties.family_name = 'Demo Pixel'
    builder.properties.weight_name = 'Medium'
    builder.properties.slant = 'R'
    builder.properties.setwidth_name = 'Normal'
    builder.properties.add_style_name = 'Sans Serif'
    builder.properties.pixel_size = 16
    builder.properties.point_size = builder.properties.pixel_size * 10
    builder.properties.resolution_x = 75
    builder.properties.resolution_y = 75
    builder.properties.spacing = 'P'
    builder.properties.average_width = round(sum([glyph.character_width * 10 for glyph in builder.glyphs]) / len(builder.glyphs))
    builder.properties.charset_registry = 'ISO10646'
    builder.properties.charset_encoding = '1'
    builder.properties.generate_xlfd()

    builder.properties.x_height = 5
    builder.properties.cap_height = 7

    builder.properties.font_version = '1.0.0'
    builder.properties.copyright = 'Copyright (c) TakWolf'

    builder.save(os.path.join(outputs_dir, 'my-font.pcf'))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Test Fonts

References

License

Under the MIT license.

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