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Author Topic: Problem with Tabulator after Eve Asset Builder Update (Version 2.1.0)  (Read 6575 times)

Simon

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Hello Bridgetek Community,

with the EAB 1.4.0 I converted fonts some months ago. In some screens I used the tabulator to save commands in the display list. This worked fine with the fonts I created at that time.
With an update of the EAB to version 2.1.0, the tabulator can no longer be displayed. Instead, a white box appears on the display.
After some research, I noticed that the tabulator is not even present in the font used, but until the update, it was still generated with in the EVE font. Since I would like to supplement the font, I would like to ask whether a checkbox can be inserted in the EAB, with which one can generate the tabulator again with into the font.
Possibly someone has a suggestion to circumvent the problem in another way?
I am looking forward to your feedback.

Greetings Simon
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Hello,

Are you referring to the font metric block when you mention the 'tabulator'?

See below for an example font conversion from the latest version of EAB:

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/*Command Line: fnt_cvt.exe -f legacy -C FT81X -i C:/Users/Public/Documents/EVE Asset Builder/Assets For Test/Generate Font Test/NotoSansCJKjp-Medium.otf -s 12 -d  1000 -c setfont -l 32 -r u0020-u007E -o C:/Users/xxxxxxx/Desktop/tab -O 1234*/

/*95 characters have been converted */

/* 148 Metric Block Begin +++  */
/*('file properties ', 'format ', 'L8', ' stride ', 12, ' width ', 12, 'height', 18)*/
{
/* Widths */
0,3,4,6,7,7,11,9,4,4,4,6,7,4,4,4,5,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,4,4,7,7,7,6,12,8,8,8,8,7,7,8,9,4,7,8,7,10,9,9,8,9,8,7,7,9,9,11,7,8,7,4,5,4,7,7,7,7,8,6,8,7,5,7,7,3,4,7,4,11,7,7,8,8,5,6,5,7,7,10,7,7,6,4,3,4,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
/* Format */
3,0,0,0,
/* Stride */
12,0,0,0,
/* Max Width */
12,0,0,0,
/* Max Height */
18,0,0,0,
/* Raw Data Address in Decimal: <932> */
164,3,0,0,

/* 148 Metric Block End ---  */

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Simon

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Hello,

thank you very much for the answer. I am not so much referring to the Font Metrics block as to what I see in the display. Also in the co-generated .png file I see that instead of the tab a white box is generated. I have uploaded the .png file to this post. With the tabulator I mean the character with the hex code 0x09, but I think that is clear.
I can't find the output you embedded in your post in my generated files. Where can I find it?

Greetings Simon
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Hello,

Thank you for the clarification.

If you select a 'full unicode' character set conversion the Tab character will be generated, I will ask the developers to see if they can include a button in EAB for Tab character inclusion into smaller character inoput sets.

The output in the above post was from the .rawh file output during a 'Legacy Format' conversion for L1-L8 fonts, this is not included in a ASTC conversion. however this same information is included in the .xfont file for an 'Extended Format' conversion.

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« Last Edit: June 04, 2021, 11:21:00 AM by BRT Community »
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Simon

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Hello,

is there an update on this topic?

Regards Simon
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