m6_font_import tool

[madman]

Thanks Asmo, tried about a dozen fonts so far, great fun.

[iversonjack]

OMG madman, that looks awesome! Quickly apply a suitable font to one of your awesome skins and upload please!

BTW: Does this font thing apply to chinese? Shame if it doesn't... or do we have to have a chinese font thingy for it?

PS: I don't get how to use this tool, please teach me.

[madman]

Originally Posted by iversonjack

OMG madman, that looks awesome! Quickly apply a suitable font to one of your awesome skins and upload please!

BTW: Does this font thing apply to chinese? Shame if it doesn't... or do we have to have a chinese font thingy for it?

Does not seem to apply to Chinese fonts. If you are not sure about applying a font to your favourite theme yourself then pick a theme and a font and I will upload one for you.

[Asmo]

Originally Posted by iversonjack

BTW: Does this font thing apply to chinese? Shame if it doesn't... or do we have to have a chinese font thingy for it?

PS: I don't get how to use this tool, please teach me.

You can import chinese font if there is one installed in your system. You need to know unicode range for chinese characters. Then just add this range to font.txt. Well, I'll show you:

* Download and extract archive for example to c:\temp
* Copy resource.bin to c:\temp
* Run command line (to run it press Win+R and type there cmd, then press Enter)
* In command line change working directory to c:\temp
* Edit font.txt, add there your own range of characters (find it here). Be sure that the font you've entered in the first line has this range of characters.
By the way, the line
0x0400 0x04ff
import cyrillic characters, if you don't need cyrillic, remove this line.
* In command line type:
m6_font_import resource.bin font.txt out.bin
* out.bin will be created, copy it to your player and rename it there to resource.bin.
* Restart player, enjoy!

[madman]

PS: I don't get how to use this tool, please teach me.

Extract to "m6_font_import" folder and copy the folder to C:\
Edit the font.txt file in notepad and enter the name of the font you want to use.

EG:
One Stroke Script LET
700
0x0021 0x00ff
0x0400 0x04f0

Then save the text file.

Copy the resource.bin file you want to use to the font patch folder.

Click on start menu and select run then type in "cmd" to open a command window.

In the command window type "cd C:\" and press enter to go to C: drive.
Then type "cd m6_font_import" and press enter to go to the font patch folder.
Then type "m6_font_import.exe resource.bin font.txt out.bin" to run the patch which will create "out.bin".
Copy out.bin to your player and rename it resource.bin then reboot as normal to load the resources and your new font.

The easiest wat to check out what fonts are available on your PC and their names is to use something like Microsoft Word to preview the fonts in the drop down menu.



You can also go to www.dafont.com and download thousands of free fonts which you just need to copy to the C:\Windows\Fonts directory.

EDIT: oooops a bit slow......

[iversonjack]

Thanks for your help guys, I got it to work. Looks mad, however, I don't use the english menu because in there, M6 cannot read chinese ID3 tags. Any suggestions, other then to:

1. change font of chinese menu,
2. edit resource.bin to change chinese menu to english

any suggestions?

BTW: is there any faster way to edit the chinese menu to english other then to copy + paste english into chinese menu spots? Anyone have some sort of shortcut program to do so?

@ Asmo: What range would I need for chinese characters? I downloaded a font i wanna apply from this site. the 3rd one down.

[Asmo]

Originally Posted by iversonjack

@ Asmo: What range would I need for chinese characters? I downloaded a font i wanna apply from this site. the 3rd one down.

Think you should try to add to font.txt this line:
0x3100 0x312F
(check please, if I'm right at this page, cause I don't know chinese)

[Err0r]

This is... awesome! This opens so many new possibilities for better skins.

Link doesn't work in China, mirror please?

Also, any possibility of this working on M3?

[iversonjack]

Tried that line, doesn't seem to change the font. Do I have to delete any lines?

[Asmo]

Originally Posted by Err0r

Link doesn't work in China, mirror please?
Also, any possibility of this working on M3?

Give me your email (in private message), I'll send you a package. Create the mirror where it's convenient for you.
Don't know resource.bin format for M3, so do not use it for M3.

Originally Posted by iversonjack

Tried that line, doesn't seem to change the font. Do I have to delete any lines?

Re-download m6_font_import.zip cause I've fixed a little bug. Then remove all ranges from font.txt. Add the only big one:
0x0021 0xfff0
This should import almost ALL glyphs from selected font. resource.bin will become 9 MB file instead of 6 MB as usual, don't worry player eats such resource.bin without any problems.
Check if the font is installed in your system! Not just downloaded. Try, and then report about the result.