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2D Toolkit => Support => Topic started by: moofly on December 18, 2015, 04:34:38 pm

Title: Short characters in font appear at bottom of text mesh
Post by: moofly on December 18, 2015, 04:34:38 pm

Hello,

I've used GlyphDesigner to export my font which, in addition to the 0-9 A-Z a-z characters, also includes various signs such as a minus.

The problem I'm having is that when I try to display either they appear at the bottom of the line of text, so instead of it looking like a minus it looks like an underscore.  For example, when it should display:  -15   it actually displays something like: _15

Have I imported it wrong?  While manually tweaking the XML file might fix it, I'd rather not resort to that if possible.

Thanks, and thanks again for your awesome life-saving plugin! :)

Matt

Title: Re: Short characters in font appear at bottom of text mesh
Post by: moofly on December 22, 2015, 03:31:16 pm

A bit more information.

The font is being managed by a sprite collection, is that relevant?  The XML file looks fine, here's a snippet:  It's the minus sign I really need (char id 45).

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!--Created using Glyph Designer - http://71squared.com/glyphdesigner-->
<font>
    <info face="Marvin" size="260" bold="0" italic="0" charset="" unicode="0" stretchH="100" smooth="1" aa="1" padding="0,0,0,0" spacing="4,4"/>
    <common lineHeight="267" base="195" scaleW="1655" scaleH="1824" pages="1" packed="0"/>
    <pages>
        <page id="0" file="marvin200.png"/>
    </pages>
    <chars count="50">
       <char id="40" x="4" y="1304" width="120" height="256" xoffset="0" yoffset="-54" xadvance="120" page="0" chnl="0" letter="("/>
        <char id="41" x="1474" y="1044" width="122" height="256" xoffset="0" yoffset="-54" xadvance="122" page="0" chnl="0" letter=")"/>
        <char id="43" x="527" y="1304" width="112" height="114" xoffset="0" yoffset="88" xadvance="112" page="0" chnl="0" letter="+"/>
        <char id="44" x="643" y="1304" width="66" height="83" xoffset="0" yoffset="119" xadvance="66" page="0" chnl="0" letter=","/>
        <char id="45" x="845" y="1304" width="85" height="64" xoffset="0" yoffset="138" xadvance="85" page="0" chnl="0" letter="-"/>

Title: Re: Short characters in font appear at bottom of text mesh
Post by: unikronsoftware on December 27, 2015, 01:04:17 am

Hi,

I can't tell from the xml, really depends on the image as well. Can you post the full font including the image? Or post in the private support forum / email support if you prefer.