BMF_font library is an OpenGL font library. It can be used to load .bmf font files generated with "bmfgen" and display text in an OpenGL application.

Features: 

• Convert any TrueType font to a .bmf file using the bmfgen tool
• Colored text
• Transparent text
• Rotation and scaling
• horizontal and vertical alignment of text is adjustable
• Version 1.01 now also supports the extended ASCII characters

The library has been developed using MinGW under Windows and is released under the GNU LGPL license.

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bmfgen - font generator

This tool can be used to generate a .bmf font file from any TrueType font. The resulting font file can be used with the BMF_font library to display text in OpenGL.

The application uses the SDL and SDL_ttf library. To be able to run it you need to place the DLL files into the executables directory. The SDL and SDL_ttf library are available at www.libsdl.org.

Features:

• Convert any TrueType font you want to use in your OpenGL application
• Texture size of output file can be specified
• RLE encoding/decoding for small files (2048x1024 texture -> ~21KB)

This tool has been developed using MinGW under Windows and is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL license. 

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