FNT Generator

Might and Magic 6 7 8 and Heroes 3 FNT (font) File Generator for Multiple Languages (Python Script). It uses another small library of mine: BDF Parser

Usage

Instantiation

FntObject = FntGen(<FONT_FILE_PATH>)

Example:

FntObject = FntGen('example_fonts/bdf/unifont-9.0.06.bdf')

setCharset

FntObject.setCharset(<CHARSET>)

Set charset. CHARSET is a string

• All single-byte charsets are supported, typical example:
  • cp1252 (default value, for latin alphabet-based languages, e.g. en, fr, de, es, it)
  • cp1251 (for Cyrillic script-based languages, e.g. ru)
  • cp1250 (for Central European languages, e.g. cs, pl)
• For double-byte charsets (DBCS), only gb2312 (zh_CN), gbk (zh_CN), big5 (zh_TW), euc_jp (ja), euc_kr (ko) are supported

Example:

FntObject.setCharset('cp1252')

setDecoration

FntObject.setDecoration(<DECORATION>)

Set decoration. DECORATION is a string, it can be: empty, shadow, black, or glow

Example:

FntObject.setDecoration('shadow')

output

FntObject.output(<FILE_NAME>, [PATH])

Output .fnt file(s). FILE_NAME is a required string parameter, PATH is an optional string parameter.

If there is any "<SIZE>" in FILE_NAME parameter, it will be replaced by the final font's actual size.

For single-byte charsets, a single .fnt file is generated.

For double-byte charsets (DBCS), it outputs multiple .fnt files. Each file name is followed by a hex representation of its corresponding high byte.

Examples:

FntObject.output('myfont', 'folder')
FntObject.output('myfont_<SIZE>_', 'folder2')

Combined examples

import fntgen as f
FntObject = f.FntGen('example_fonts/bdf/unifont-9.0.06.bdf')
FntObject.setCharset('cp1252').setDecoration('shadow').output('FONT', 'uni_cp1252')
FntObject.setCharset('gb2312').setDecoration('glow').output('DBCS_<SIZE>_', 'uni_gb2312')

(More combined examples: example.py)

Other tools

• Example .bdf fonts:
  • GNU Unifont (Wikipedia article; Homepage): Unicode font (intended to support "all" common languages)
  • M+ FONTS (Wikipedia article; Homepage): Japanese font
  • HanWangYanKai 王漢宗自由字型顏體 (Chinese Wikipedia article; download .ttf): Traditional Chinese font
  • MingLiU 細明體: Traditional Chinese font
  • SimSun 中易宋体: Simplified Chinese font
  • STKaiti 华文楷体: Simplified Chinese font
  • FZCKJW 方正粗楷简体: Simplified Chinese font
• FNT font file editors: 2 old, executable FNT file editors. Just an archive. Not written by me.
• otf2bdf: OpenType to BDF Converter. Just an archive. Not written by me.

License

• Python code is written by me (Tom CHEN) and is released under the MIT License.
• otf2bdf: see its page.
• FNT font file editors: fair use.
• Example .bdf fonts:
  • GNU Unifont: GNU General Public License v2, by Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy, part of the GNU Project
  • M+ FONTS: a free license, designed by Coji Morishita
  • HanWangYanKai 王漢宗自由字型顏體: GNU General Public License v2, by 王漢宗
  • Other fonts are proprietary, and are used non-commercially and fairly