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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I just found myself Ctrl-Tabbing between the two images.
What on earth am I doing?!?!? 
I need ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) or possibly ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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It is just the haircut.
She is a lawyer not a scientist.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: She is a lawyer not a scientist.
She's neither: she's a politician.
grralph1 wrote: It is just the haircut.
Along with the facial features - yeah I see what you mean.
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Quote: She's neither: she's a politician.
Well she is now.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: or a cloning experiment gone wrong?
Or maybe it's politics that do that to you.
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Data format inserted in charged particle (11)
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Information ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Too easy. You're up tomorrow.
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Way too easy especially the charged particle
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Being a Bear of Very Little Brain, could you elucidate? I haven't got it! 
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Data format inserted in charged particle (11) I could be wrong but ...
in = word in the clue
format = word in the clue
charge particle = ion
format inserted in charged particle = put 'format' between 'in' and 'charged particle' (ion) => in format ion => information
information = data P.S. I hadn't got the solution. I have just reverse engineered the solution to get its derivation
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Ah! Thanks for that. I also tried reverse engineering and got completely sidetracked by 'fermion', which of course would have to be spelt wrong!
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It actually wasn't a very well constructed clue - it was just a very obvious solution
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm very new to crytic's and I've only posted about a half dozen or so.
As I've said in the past, constructive comments on my clues are always welcomed to help me improve for the next one.
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Spot on.
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My little graphics library needs to do text, and I thought "hey, I'll whip up a C# app to rasterize monospaced fonts to a monochrome bitmap."
Just add a reference to System.Drawing to a console app, and then create a Bitmap and draw to it right?
Wrong.
Even after you set all of the text rendering hints, and even using GraphicsPath.AddString() for more accuracy, you cannot turn off the padding around the fonts, nor get the font to a pixel perfect height at all sizes.
The thing is, the GDI+ code underneath is perfectly capable of doing this. They just didn't expose it.
The alternative is reinventing the entire elephanting wheel and rasterizing the fonts myself.
I found an open source project (under Apache license unfortunately) that I can use to build my tool. Fortunately that tool isn't part of my GFX package itself - it's just a utility to make files that the GFX code can read.
But this shouldn't be necessary. They actually have to parse the TTFs and draw them manually. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Would any of these help? : The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That's neat, but they're just retro font files. I guess maybe some of the formats they have are easier to use than TTF but id I went that route I'd be forced to use say, .fon files or whatever, and I'd really like the end user of my library to be able to choose their own fonts. So .ttf is pretty much what's for dinner.
I've got code to do the TTF rasterization now, I just need to modify it for my own nefarious purposes.
It will be nice to have the drawing primitives of GFX sewn up, and this is the last of it, unless i decide to add things like bilinear resampling and antialiasing.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Those are all pre-rasterized fonts. Yes, they are old but so what? For this purpose, that is exactly what I would use. This is for an Arduino right? Do you really want to pursue much beyond bitmap fonts? I certainly wouldn't. Anti-aliasing? Nope. I would not go beyond allowing the option for a transparent background or opaque. That is, for highest performance and that should be the highest priority in my opinion. If cosmetics are that high a priority then you are on the wrong platform as far as I am concerned.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I was intending to render to a monochrome bitmap. I did manage to get it to render without anti-aliasing, and with single-bit-per-pixel position.
That was not the problem. I could render any monospace font regardless of whether or not it was BMP based. Because I was rendering the font, and saving the result of the render as a bitmap.
The only problem I ran into - THE ONLY problem, was positioning. .NET has no facility to accurately position fonts to a pixel perfect grid. That's the only problem.
And yes, cosmetics are an issue, because sometimes, I'm being called on to write professional looking software, and professional looking software shouldn't look like elephant crap, even on an embedded device. They aren't always an issue in all circumstances, but they are when it comes to larger font renderings.
If I need anti-aliasing i can bump from monochrome to grayscale and then treat the grayscale like an inverted alpha channel
The ESP32 can handle displaying a small rendering of Lucida Console (for example) or I wouldn't be doing this.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Cool. Best of luck with it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Quote: The thing is, the GDI+ code underneath is perfectly capable of doing this. They just didn't expose i
Then write a C++ program using Winapi & GDI+.
I experienced myself the problem you have with C# and found it quite annoying. Eventually I used a free tool (unfortunately I don't remember its name) to rasterize the fonts.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Yeah, I want to go the free tool route if possible, or otherwise whip this up quick and dirty. I just need to make a tool that's not standalone - it's just meant as a utility to generate font files my code needs.
Real programmers use butterflies
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A C# wrapper around FreeType is another alternative?
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