System.dreg/Font Discussion

No need to, I'm happy that at least someone uses my tools :D

Also, remember that without Freeplay neither the registry tools nor the font converter would have existed (I'm pretty hard to get started on anything, which is the mental equivalent of inertia), and certainly there'd be no Windows builds or testing.

What I would like to see someone do would be a Windows tool (maybe in Delphi?) that'd automatically execute the parsedreg3, fixupdreg3 and ttf2pgf with correct options set in a GUI :) I can help with explaining what do all the options do and how to use parsedreg3-fixupdreg3 together in a correct way!

Nice work, Skylark.

well post the info on here and im sure lots of us could get a program knocked together (i use vb mostly but its as good as delphi if its just calling a dos program with command line params)
in the meantime ill make a quick and dirty one with blank command line params so i just need to insert the params.

ffs.. i dont understand the readme lol is it like ttf2pgf font.ttf font.pgf 15 - b

An example invocation would be:

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ttf2pgf blade.ttf ltn0.pgf 24bh0.8 b2.5i1.2

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This will create a font with height 24, bold, with horizontal scaling by 0.8 (good for fonts that are natively too wide to look good on a PSP). The shadow will be blurred using a Gaussian blur with radius 2.5, and the shadow intensity will be 1.2

See, that's why I want a nice GUI! I'm OK with commandlines like this, but I understand that the first encounter is shocking ;)

Skylark, will you ever make a pgf editor for those that want to change the size of any pgf's posted here?

thats hard lol ok .. how to i make the dir of like ltn0.pgf to ltn1.pgf? ./mkfontset ?

PGFs are bitmap fonts, and are scaled on-the-fly by the PSP (using the texture hardware, I suspect). So, once a TTF vector font is rendered into a PGF using ttf2pgf (that's what the FreeType library is used for), there is no way of rescaling it without impacting readability in a really bad way (scaling font bitmaps twice will introduce serious blur to the outline edges).

The amount of work to make an utility like this would be unjustifiably high. I suggest that everyone names the TTF font they converted into PGF so that we will know how to regenerate it.

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PGFs are bitmap fonts, and are scaled on-the-fly by the PSP (using the texture hardware, I suspect). So, once a TTF vector font is rendered into a PGF using ttf2pgf (that's what the FreeType library is used for), there is no way of rescaling it without impacting readability in a really bad way (scaling font bitmaps twice will introduce serious blur to the outline edges).

The amount of work to make an utility like this would be unjustifiably high. I suggest that everyone names the TTF font they converted into PGF so that we will know how to regenerate it.

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Meh, It's not that important, i just noticed somebody asking for a resized version of a font so I thought i might aswell ask .I dont really use fonts all that much, Notepad is my tool ;)

paradox: Yeah, mkfontset (if you're in Unix or Cygwin):

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./mkfontset font1.ttf font2.ttf

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The first font will be used for sans, the second for serif (I think serif is used only by the browser, the menus are all sans). You can use a single TTF for both, of course.

ok ill get on this - is there any other options that are needed?
and also how many people have had lucky copying there font files to there flash1 because mines runs out of space :S

I'm thinking of modifying the registry to use only 4 fonts instead of all 16 (making all entries of the same style - regular, bold, italic and bold italic - point to one font instead 4 different ones). That'd reduce the number of fonts considerably. Also, you could use something smaller instead of the Asian fonts since they are huge (20k+ characters total).

what options would you like to be changeable?
for example bold would be a checkbox for a yes or no but are we making the others user-selectable?
i ask because the commandline is nearly ready, just a problem to sort out. once the basics are running ill work on cleaning it up, but it would help if i know what options are changeable. :)

If you replace kr0 and jpn0 with your custom font file, it should not extend free space in flash1 as I see things here, kr0 and jpn0 have to be there or it results in bsod. I tested this with some custom fonts and flash1 never ran out of space.

That's nice, but i prefer running them from ms becuase im not sure, what if your font was dodgy and your xmb ended up like the web browser? Are the files backed-up on flash0 or not? Anyway, I dont use the sony ms that came with the psp so it's not a problem for me.

i cant get them into the flash1 because it runs out of space so i cant replace them. im short just about 1 meg of space as when i copy them 1 by one its the 1.something meg ones that fails, and i tried it with both of them and same result. but nm ill just have to stick with the dodgy mem stick option for now.
anyway still working on the gui. :)

great, anger. thanks, skylark and freeplay.
someone earlier made awindows batch converter. is it possible to write one that converts all the TTFs in a directory, and keep the filenames?

umm when i run the batch file and stuff the names are weird and there are only 6 files in my fontmod folder whats up??

be a little more specific?

are you useing the first ttf2pgf (not ttf2pgf2)? what are the files?
is the PSP's drive letter E?

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be a little more specific?

are you useing the first ttf2pgf (not ttf2pgf2)? what are the files?
is the PSP's drive letter E?

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im using the first ttf2pgf2 and my psp drive is E and the names are blckltr.pgf blade.pgf comicbk.pgf kitchen.pgf and yoshisst.pgf

you must not be using the batch file...

the batch file does this:

ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn0.pgf
ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn1.pgf
ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn2.pgf
...
ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn15.pgf
move *.pgf E:\fontmod\
del *.pgf

the last line is not necessary really... but nowhere does it have blckltr.pgf or any other of those .pgf's.

are you sure you're using the batch?

so do we have a windows ttf2pgf with shadow....?

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Many Bothans died to bring you this file:

http://www.svsu.edu/~mcmcelro/freeplay/ttf2pgf2-bin.zip

It was pretty hard to build in Win32 (it requires the latest Freetype, so we had to compile that too, and there were some problems with making the linker see the light). But in the end Freeplay and me prevailed! :D

Please read the README... New functionality is not trivial to use.

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http://forums.qj.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=639

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you must not be using the batch file...

the batch file does this:

ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn0.pgf
ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn1.pgf
ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn2.pgf
...
ttf2pgf download.ttf ltn15.pgf
move *.pgf E:\fontmod\
del *.pgf

the last line is not necessary really... but nowhere does it have blckltr.pgf or any other of those .pgf's.

are you sure you're using the batch?

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im using the batch file but now when i do it in the command promt it says that making the files failed but i dont know what im doing wrong

i dont get Adjust the freetype.h header location (if necessary) in `build' and execute
the script in the ttf2pgf readme?? can someone help

If you're doing this under Windows and using the binary distribution, you don't need to build it. In fact, building under Windows requires a handstand, backflip and cutting yourself up, so I don't recommend that anyone do that.

Just use the ttf2pgf.exe that is provided in the distribution. If you haven't performed a fontmod before, maybe it'd be good to try and follow (for instance) the TeamOverload's guide (http://teamoverload.blogspot.com/) before trying your hand at converting fonts... You'll need to execute the steps in TO's guide anyway.

i have followed everthing in this tut and still cant get it to work http://forums.qj.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=580

Do other (not converted by yourself) fonts work for you? If not, then you haven't followed TO's guide.

Otherwise, take the file that ttf2pgf outputs (the second command-line argument is the name of this file) and copy over ltn0.pgf...ltn15.pgf in your 'fontmod' directory on the Memory Stick.

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Do other (not converted by yourself) fonts work for you? If not, then you haven't followed TO's guide.

Otherwise, take the file that ttf2pgf outputs (the second command-line argument is the name of this file) and copy over ltn0.pgf...ltn15.pgf in your 'fontmod' directory on the Memory Stick.

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yes i have had other fonts installed on my psp and when i run ttf2pgf nothing happens except the command promt comes up and goes away to fast and i cant see what it says?! do i need to download freetype2??

i had the italic font b4 from OT

Maybe it'd be good to read the README file? You should run ttf2pgf from the command prompt. It's not a GUI program, although Anger is developing a nice wrapper for it that will make it easy to use.

im using the batch file that someone made

Ok here is my updated Airstrip font...http://eatsleepgame.com/Airstrip.zip
I used the example shadow numbers given from Skylark, dunno if it did anything :P
Updated thnx to the tutorial by Skylark...compressed a bit and more shadow.

ugh, i have the halo font, but its only the ltn0.pgf, i have been trying to get the rest of the 20 files so i can copy them to my flash via flashmod, anyone think they could through a couple words my way as to how to get the rest of the files for this to work with flashmod? (im not going to edit the registry files since i dont want to load the fonts from my mem stick.)

It's much better to find it out for yourself than to be a monkey pressing buttons. Batch files are damn useful but you should understand what's happening inside before you use them. (They could be doing deltree c:\*.* /y for all you know before you look.)

So. Put the ttf2pgf files (EXE and DLL) in some convenient directory (say C:\TEMP) along with a TTF file you want to convert (say it's named MY.TTF). Open a command prompt. Change your directory to the one you put all those files in:

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cd  c:\temp

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Now you can write:

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pgf2ttf MY.TTF ltn0.pgf

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This will create a ltn0.pgf file. You can take this file and copy it over ltn0.pgf-ltn15.pgf in the fontmod directory on your Memory Stick. Congratulations! You have converted your first TTF font.

Now, to make things more interesting - try making the font bold, italic and changing it's size to 20:

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pgf2ttf MY.TTF ltn0.pgf 20bi

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If you're feeling adventurous, you can try compressing it a bit horizontally (0.8x):

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pgf2ttf MY.TTF ltn0.pgf 20bih0.8

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If you want the letters to be spaced farther away (1.2x):

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pgf2ttf MY.TTF ltn0.pgf 20bih0.8a1.2

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Now, you can start messing with shadows. To get a more blurry one (blur radius 3.0 instead of the default 2.0) try:

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pgf2ttf MY.TTF ltn0.pgf 20bih0.8a1.2 b3.0

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Since you blur it more, it becomes lighter. So you'll also want to make it darker (intensity 1.2 vs the default 0.8):

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pgf2ttf MY.TTF ltn0.pgf 20bih0.8a1.2 b3.0i1.2

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Try having fun with different option values.

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great, anger. thanks, skylark and freeplay.
someone earlier made awindows batch converter. is it possible to write one that converts all the TTFs in a directory, and keep the filenames?

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There's a way to do it, yeah. I came up with it yesterday. It won't work if you have a "." in the filename anywhere before the .TTF, though.
You can just open Notepad, copy+paste this code, then go to File->Save As and enter "convert.bat" - exactly that, including the quotes. Now all you have to do is double-click the convert.bat file and it'll run.

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for /f "delims=." %x in ('dir /b *.ttf') do @ttf2pgf "%x.ttf" "%x.pgf"

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This will convert all TTF fonts in a folder to PGF fonts with the same filenames, assuming none of them have a "." in their name. This will only use the default options, though.

ok it is ready. i have made a gui for the font converter.
when you run the program it extracts all the files (including the converter itself) to the directory each time it is run.

this was really just made at the request of skylark to make converting fonts a little easier. it will only convert a font to ltn0.pgf file (it wont do the other 14 yet - i have plans for an update should this be of use.)

so unzip the archive from the link at the end of this post to a directory where you want the program to be and then copy in a font file to the same directory then run the exe, enter the information in the boxes then just press execute. (if you know the information to enter that is - if you dont then ask here and someone will tell you values that work, or you can experiment yourself. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY if you screw up your psp by using wrong values.

when you close the program it cleans up after itself so when your done there should only be your original font file, the font converter exe and your converted file. then simply copy the converted file over to the fontmod folder on your psp etc.

this program may require the vb6 runtime library to run, so if it does and you dont have it get it from microsoft.com

post if this is off use to you - i want to know if making a 0.2+ is worth while :)

LINK: PSP Font Converter + Gui.zip

To get it to work with my flashmod edit, download the first font posted by TeamOverload to get the shadow file and others. Then for the ltn0-15 just copy ltn0.pgf and rename each one until you have 16 of them. So copy it 15 times, rename the first ltn1.pgf, second one ltn2.pgf, third ltn3.pgf excetra, until you have them all. Then put them in the fontmod folder at ms0:/ and run flashmod.

If you want to have a correct font, know that:

• Latin fonts 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14 are sans-serif
• 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15 are serif
• 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 are full-size
• 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 are 2/3 of the full size
• 0,1,8,9 are regular
• 2,3,10,11 are italic ('i' option)
• 4,5,12,13 are bold ('b' option)
• 6,7,14,15 are bold italic ('bi' option)

You can generate the whole set out of two TTF fonts (one sans-serif, one serif) using different typeface options.

Your program made it alot easier and faster. I would love to see an update.