{"id":367,"date":"2008-12-29T20:56:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-12-29T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T10:56:06","slug":"an-update-on-bitmap-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/12\/29\/an-update-on-bitmap-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on bitmap fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quick notes;\u00a0 I&#8217;ve fixed bitmap fonts to word wrap properly in VectorStorm, if a maximum width is passed into the CreateString() or CreateStringInDisplayList() functions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I&#8217;ve fixed the autogeneration of bitmap fonts from TrueType fonts such that they&#8217;re scaled to the largest glyph actually incorporated into the bitmap font, instead of according to the largest glyph in the TrueType font.\u00a0 This means that if you draw a font with a size of 20, then the tallest glyph in the font (usually an exclamation point or a capital letter) will draw upward twenty units from the baseline.\u00a0 Descenders (such as the bottom of a lower-case &#8216;g&#8217; or &#8216;y&#8217;) are <em>not counted<\/em>.\u00a0 So when drawing a string, be sure that you&#8217;ve positioned the string such that there&#8217;s space for any descenders to extend downward.\u00a0 (This isn&#8217;t an issue for the vsBuiltInFont class, as its glyphs have no descenders)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quick notes;\u00a0 I&#8217;ve fixed bitmap fonts to word wrap properly in VectorStorm, if a maximum width is passed into the CreateString() or CreateStringInDisplayList() functions. Additionally, I&#8217;ve fixed the autogeneration of bitmap fonts from TrueType fonts such that they&#8217;re scaled to the largest glyph actually incorporated into the bitmap font, instead of according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-5V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}