PICTURE TEXT CREATOR

I'm not sure what's going on (I'm just tapping into Window's font renderer) but I'll look into it. I was confused what you were saying at first because I thought you meant there were errant pixels or things covering the letters or something, not that things were out of alignment.

So you're just saying that it's adding extra space at that point and making the column widths not uniform, correct?

Are you seeing the white pixels all the way from top to bottom of the column? What foreground and background colors are you using? And do you see the pixels before you "Save as PNG" or afterward?

Thanks! I'm glad it's working out for you! Note that while this page has been stale I've made some minor updates to the program itself (bug fixes, and better system font integration). So if you don't have version 2.5, it might be worth another download.

Definitely NOT limited to monospace, as the sample font included with the download demonstrates. The length of the lines on top of each letter is what determines the width of each character. The height is fixed for all characters and is determined by the distance between the top-left most line and the line immediately below it (specifically, it's the first non-background-colored pixel on the top-left and then the first similarly colored pixel found by going straight down; the background color is determined by the lower-right-most pixel in the original image). I chose to make it not automatically determine width because I wanted to allow for monospaced fonts, which would require extra space for letters like the lower case i or l.

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about with your second comment. If you mean that the program doesn't shift text over after using a picture, it actually does, but only on the first line. Afterward, you'll need to manually indent things yourself. That isn't optimal, but then again I'm mostly making this as a method to easy convert font sets from old video games into images (primarily for rm2k/3), not an actual layout program.

If you're talking about transparency and layering of images/text, all of the text is printed with the background color transparent, which means you can layer text on text (or, if you so choose, text on pictures you include with the font). You can actually drag/drop images into the background of the picture too, if you want. I plan to make a video today highlighting the features so people know what it can do.

Thanks for the information about the 32-bit error. I may look at my compiler options to see if I can fix that. I've been a hobbyist programmer forever, but this is the first time I've actually publicly release any code, so it is a bit of a learning experience. I coded everything in VB.net.

EDIT: I should also thank you for your interest. I built this for myself, but I figured it could be useful for the community as a whole. I'm also working on making some updates today to clean up the interface and what-not. I noticed RS!D a bit late and pretty much just threw out what I had sitting on my hard drive. So hopefully by day's end it'll be a bit better.