Binary fonts does not generated after the first time

[egoltzman]

Hi,

I set the binary option in the designer (4.13) and successfully generated the bin files. I then unset the option and generate again the fonts fileד. All this session worked as expected.

Now, after a while, in the same project, I set the binary option again but this time the bin directory was not created.

Any idea?

Thanks

[Martin KJELDSEN]

Are you sure it wasn't just deleted? Using binary fonts is a bit convoluted at the moment and we're working on a better solution - We've got a script that can generate glyphs without using the excel sheet. When you uncheck the "binary" option you need to store the generated bin file before re-generating.

[egoltzman]

Since the project includes various fonts and only one of the fonts need to be use as a cached binary font we did the following:

• Set the binary font option
• Generated fonts
• Copy the binary fonts to a safe place out of the project tree
• copy the font source to a safe place out of the project tree.
• unset the binary font option
• Regenerate the fonts
• Replace the source of the Table_fontname_4bpp.cpp with the one from the safe place mention above that is actually an empty font table.
• Replace the source of the Kerning_fontname_4bpp.cpp as well
• Delete all the Font_fontname_4bpp_*.cpp
• Add support in the code for loading the binary font and use it as fontname.

Now, in that stage, if I want to repeat the process, maybe with another font from the project, and I set the binary font option and generate I can't get the bin directory again any more.

[Martin KJELDSEN]

Okay, i'll try out your flow when i can! Thanks

/Martin

[egoltzman]

Hi Martin,

In another 4.13 project that is up and running without binary option set I need to add the binary font option.

I set the binary fonts option in the designer, generated the code rebuild and the bin directory is created but it is empty, any idea what could be wrong?

Thanks,

Eyal

[egoltzman]

I can see that if the bin directory exist the binary fonts are created into it