u think you could make a ttf of the 12x12 of mayday or Mordaes_12x12_101
can be found here
http://dffd.wimbli.com/category.php?id=16&string=&sort=file_id&order=asc&limit=50&page=1I'm interested in phoebus the most, but this guy mentions it without linking it (i messaged him)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=52186.210Mayday's is a good alternative to phoebus, so that one would be nice.
Do you know of any already made ttf--not having been converted, but made from the groundup-- that resemble a graphic tileset best at a 12x12 resolution? I understand your program was made for this, but I'm wondering if a ttf was already out there.
Is it possible to use an alternative to cygwin as mentioned on the fontforge site?
Alternatives to cygwin.
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There are now alternatives to cygwin.
Someone has ported fontforge to mingw, which is much simpler to download than cygwin:
fontforge-mingw
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Update 2:
I got cygwin installed. Fontforge isn't exactly clear on where I'm supposed to get x windows system from within cygwin (doing a search for "window" shows nothing, "x" only shows x11, so I installed the full x11 package). Fontforge is instaleld by default within cygwin apparently.
running your script now starts with no errors, but I'm not getting output. It just stops running after 10-20 seconds.
Update 3:
I tried putting the files in the cygwin dir, and running it within cygwin. I don't think that's what I'm supposed to do, cuz the .py files don't run within cygwin (unless my python didn't install right with cygwin? Which I never installed via cygwin menu, but it is on there. If I type python in cygwin, it starts up a python 'shell').
Update 4:
Okay, I'm making progress. I copied the script and tileset in question to the fontforge-cygwin_2011_06_06 (which is a fontforge cygwin (alternative) install), and when I run the script, it opens fontforge, but fontforge is unresponsive. My CPU isn't doing much, so I don't think it's doing anything. I got the idea when I was looking at the script, and it made a call to fontforge.
Update 5:
Apparently the fontforge cygwin (alternative) install is in a different language.
Update 6:
Apparently the minigw alternative install had a fontforge.exe, so I tried putting the files in there and running it. It justs exits out when trying to start the .py scripas it originally did.
Update 7:
Okay, it's not crashing now. I modified the minigw fontforge.bat to prep.bat, and pulled out the reference to actually starting fontforge. So my paths are setup to use fontforge in the minigw folder. Then I renamed fontforge.bat to something else, then started prep.bat, and then started the .py script. So now it looks like it's doing something, but again my cpu is really low. So i'm not sure what it's doing, but fontforge.exe is open, and the .py script hasn't stopped.