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The FURWARE texture creator is a tool to generate font textures from TrueType/OpenType font files. It is currently under development and documentation will follow soon.
== Overview ==


You can get raw the Python 2 code at [http://github.com/furware/text/tree/master/TextureCreator].
FURWARE texture creator is a tool for creating font textures for the FURWARE text script from TrueType/OpenType font files. It offers quite flexible configuration options for tweaking per-font and per-symbol options like offsets and scaling. This enables you to create configuration files for specific fonts to fit perfectly for usage with FURWARE text without any additional, manual tweaking of the resulting textures.


Also, there is a pre-compiled "convenience package" for Windows available at [http://www.furware.de/products/text/TextureCreator.zip].
The tool is available as a Python 2 script and a pre-compiled package for Windows; see below.
 
== Documentation ==
 
Please see the following subpages for documentation:
 
[[FURWARE_text/TextureCreator/Usage|Quick start and overview]]
 
[[FURWARE_text/TextureCreator/Reference|Script commands and font configuration reference]]
 
[[FURWARE_text/TextureCreator/Fonts|Download links for the standard FURWARE text fonts]]
 
== How to obtain the tool ==
 
The Python 2 code is available at [http://github.com/furware/text/tree/master/TextureCreator GitHub].
 
Also, there is a pre-compiled package for Windows available from the [http://www.furware.de/products/text/TextureCreator.zip FURWARE website].

Latest revision as of 12:55, 1 September 2013

Overview

FURWARE texture creator is a tool for creating font textures for the FURWARE text script from TrueType/OpenType font files. It offers quite flexible configuration options for tweaking per-font and per-symbol options like offsets and scaling. This enables you to create configuration files for specific fonts to fit perfectly for usage with FURWARE text without any additional, manual tweaking of the resulting textures.

The tool is available as a Python 2 script and a pre-compiled package for Windows; see below.

Documentation

Please see the following subpages for documentation:

Quick start and overview

Script commands and font configuration reference

Download links for the standard FURWARE text fonts

How to obtain the tool

The Python 2 code is available at GitHub.

Also, there is a pre-compiled package for Windows available from the FURWARE website.