Comments on: Beta 5.2 released

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:29:20 +0000

Ok, thanks for the info. I’ll be happy for a 0.6 release, with or without bugs.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:56:37 +0000

The variable width code is in the CVS, but there are lots of crashing bugs to fix plus a couple of things to improve the output. The other problem at the moment is that for some fonts the image is off because the width is being reported wrong on some characters, and I’ve no idea why.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:24:08 +0000

Any tastes of things to come or news on developements?

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:17:17 +0000

Bravo! It’s nice having another gen to wet my appetite.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:57:00 +0000

Okay, that sounds great! It’s nice to know I was at least in the vacinity of the problem and that you think you’ve got it resolved.

Cheers.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:28:05 +0000

Don’t worry, I think I’ve got it. I was overcomplicating things and thinking about letting the user set the output size in pixels, when I can just keep the user input as it is. If I just give all variable width fonts a character width of 5 pixels for the calculations, then the output size width of 150 will give an output width of ~700 pixels which is about the right size.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:48:26 +0000

okay, I have no idea what I’m talking about (since it works on the overall ratio rather than the character ratio… it might work, I don’t know). I’ll probably think of a few more foolish ideas, however.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:44:30 +0000

Just another note.

Well, the ratio thing I suggested would be weak, I imagine. Trying to get my head around the processes. Characters will be distorted in ratio if it were all changed in the same increments. Maybe you could have the ratio box 1×1 = unadjusted. Every ratio works on the characters ratios? So 3/4 ratio (width/height) creates a 15/19 character with a ratio of 45/76, a 8/19 character ratio of 24/76 or a 3/19 character ratio of 9/76 to influence the proportions of the output.

By: dwayne

dwayne — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:35:55 +0000

Each of the characters (less than*)15 width `collect’ the right amount of pixels, but at the low end of detail, it would be the widest character in the ramp or valid keys forms that collects 1 unit.

I don’t know if it preprocesses fewer pixels on the image with the output width/height?

Okay, that’s probably as messed up as the first time I tried explaining it.

The second point about character ratios, at the moment to my awareness, I still like it. If you had Times New Roman size 12, I believe the height is 19 pixels which would appear in the box. In the width box would be a 0 (equal width). You can then manually enter in a positive or negative value and it increases or decreases all of the ASCII characters widths.

It’s not a ratio, but then you’ve got x amount of characters and I don’t think it’s possible to work with a straight forward ratio. Whereis, where it’s mono space. You could include instructions later on.

I can’t think of how to make 1:1 (0×19, for example).

* Note: It doesn’t appear your blog likes the less than sign.

By: dwayne

dwayne — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:32:22 +0000

Now that I think about it, you might be still trying to get the image to ratio?

To clarify what I meant above, when you enter a value in the length-width generations, each of those units, in the example size, should be 15×18 pixels. The value, let’s say default width 150, should represent 150×15 pixels. Each of the characters