m6_font_import tool

[Erwin]

Is it possible that the font has a black outline? I now use white font but i got some nice pictures i would like to use as back ground only on some pictures i can't read parts of the text anymore... So with a black outline it would be readable

[Asmo]

Is it possible that the font has a black outline?

No, it's impossible...

[tERROR]

tERROR, I don't think someone that has little to no interest in creating a font by hand would have interest in trying to use, let alone use the font they make with it. The font sizes are very small, so creating your own font is easy. You can't make a font in paint and then send the images into the M6... unless you have a tool to make fonts with from images. This tool only takes fonts you get that OTHER people have made and put them on, but I can guarantee that converting a font from one size to another of such a small size is going to make all the glyphs work. In fact, it won't. They will need some adjusting, so a creation to to view and edit the glyphs is a GOOD idea.
good morning first back to topic:
i am still likly to oppose - there are a lot of ITC fonts that wouldn't need readjustment. additionally there are allready programms out there to create true type fonts from pixels (thus the paint recommendation).
i am not going to tell anyone what to do, but as long as there are allready programms out there fitting perfectly for this usage, i don't see why anyone should invent the wheel again.

Now for those that actually have the interest to create a font only they themselves are gonna use anyway, more than likely, or those that are actually good at graphics design (me, for one), we would probably be very interested in making new M6 type fonts. I sure as hell would, and the best way to make a font of this size specifically for this device is to make one. Impoting is a great idea, but some fonts won't work too well with it, only basic fonts like arial that are clear and precise would work very well, as far as I can tell from dealing with small fonts.
i'd also like to call myself quite experienced at graphics design/mostly photo manipulation and restauration. i would also be intersted in adopting a font to the meizu - but as i have written before, i don't think that there is the need for a special meizu tool, as there are allready enough tools out there.

I have one font style I would love to make, since it doesn't exist outside color images, and that's the Megaman X font. It's a font of that size, and is even a block style font that has a set width and height. There are tons of game fonts like that, too, that are small, and they would need to be made by a font creation tool that can make actual glyphs and save them as a FONT, not a picture, which I already got.
i like the first part of this - megaman would be kinda cool. 2nd part = as i allredy said, ... :D

Anyway, for such small sizes, I think many people could get into messing with it, and if anything, if Asmo has a file with the default font for the M6 to load back up... well, I guess just reloading the resource would do that... then there isn't anything you can hurt by messing with a font template and changing some thing by hand to look the way YOU want them to.


Someone, please get a screenshot of a new font that's easy to see it's completely different, and thanks in advance!

Also, seriously... anything someone that would like to take on the task of making that edits to look and style of the graphics would kick ass. Maybe soon, we'll be able to adjust the sizes of some things to fix some things... such as the difference in height between characters in the browser and main menu which messes up selection bars, and the palcement of them.
ack.

I'm really waiting for the day someone finally cracks the M6.EBN file and finds out how to add their own new stuff. If people that could do that were here and had the passion XBOX 360 crackers have, then it would be done in a week. I just read read about a device some people have built that can read off the hard drive and flash teh firmware in the dvd drive in them.
ack.

don't expect to hear from me soon - i'll be at a rock festival
have a nice day:D

[iversonjack]

I have tried to install chinese font but with no success. In the font.txt, do I type in as the font-name, the chinese characters or the english representation of it? for example:

HDZB_10
700
0x0021 0xfff0

OR do i do this:

漢鼎繁舒體
700
0x0021 0xfff0

I tried both but it doesn't seem to work... the font DID change, but not to the one I specified.

[Asmo]

I have tried to install chinese font but with no success. In the font.txt, do I type in as the font-name, the chinese characters or the english representation of it? for example:

HDZB_10
700
0x0021 0xfff0

Specify the font name as it registered in your system, not the font file name.

[dravik]

Wow thanks man! i downloaded 2800 fonts so now i can make it realy cool...:D

[gilliu00_]

so...how would the chinese font range be set for this...i don't really understand this range thing

oh and btw, you don't have to have a chinese menu to display chinese tags.
You can convert the tags to v2.3 using iTunes. But then it's not ID3...up to you really.


hm..but main thing i would want is for meizu's new firmware to have shadows behind their font's. It would look soo much nicer.

[my zoo]

Thanks for sharing, Asmo!

This is a great supplement to the resource editor.

[iversonjack]

gilliu00, that'll take ages for me to do so. I would rather change the menu then do that.

PS: I don't know how to get chinese fonts to work, so I've given up.

[Erag0n]

Report from Thailand User :
use tag::

Tahoma
700
0x0E00 0xE7F

I test with Fw. Version T2003.2 with M6 Font Import tool V1.01

My M6 now support Thai-lang.Tag id but some charector miss {sara charector, for thai may understand} it Ok , I need to mod the font for more correct font position
Thank you so much , If remember me I test your tool last ver with Thai-lang not work. And now It work

[Asmo]

gilliu00, that'll take ages for me to do so. I would rather change the menu then do that.

PS: I don't know how to get chinese fonts to work, so I've given up.

Do you use chinese in your Windows or you just trying to install chinese font?

[Asmo]

Thank you so much , If remember me I test your tool last ver with Thai-lang not work. And now It work

m6_patch_font tool doesn't import fonts, it only uses fonts that are already in firmware. As there is no Thai by default - m6_patch_font fails.

BTW, if you use m6_font_import and then m6_patch_font you'll be able to read txt written in Thai!

[iversonjack]

I use an english windows with installed chinese font that I want to put on. Do I need a chinese windows for it to change the font to chinese?

[Asmo]

I use an english windows with installed chinese font that I want to put on. Do I need a chinese windows for it to change the font to chinese?

Probably yes, because Windows needs not only the chinese fonts but also engines to render that fonts. You can install chinese support in control panel/regional and language settings, 2nd tab Languages. There is Additional languages groupbox. Set all checkboxes.

[iversonjack]

I already had that on. Maybe when I get time, I will try it on my other computer, running CHT windows XP.

[gilliu00_]

hm..i'm in the same situation as well

i would like to change the font to something cool
XD

[springo]

Would it be possible to expand the functionality by making M6 antialias the the fonts?

[Asmo]

Would it be possible to expand the functionality by making M6 antialias the the fonts?

No. Only if Meizu open the source or at least some parts of it, it will become possible.

[PoUëT]

OMG !!!

I think that I'm falling in love with you Asmo ... ^^

Great tool, I was expected it for a while, thank you very very much, I'm gonna give it a try.

[GreenJadeMonkey]

i dont know why but somehow it dosent work for me ive done everything exactly like in the description but when i update the modified FW everything looks like before ?

Greetz