Here are answers to some of the more frequently asked questions about Fontrast:
Yes, in fact Fontrast has been used commercially to create textures for Russian, Korean and Chinese text, as well as many western European languages.
Any character supported by your chosen TrueType font can be incorporated into a texture page. Fontrast allows you to define a completely custom set of characters. If you are presented with a large amount of localised text, you can simply pass all the text into Fontrast as a single Unicode file, and it will generate an efficient font texture capable of rendering all the required characters.
In the output options section of the main dialog, check the "flood colour" box and leave "snap alpha" unchecked. This problem is usually caused by graphics hardware filtering the texture, which can lead to background pixels being partially blended with the foreground pixels in your textures. By selecting "flood colour", the entire texture will be painted in the font colour (with the alpha channel controlling the shape of each letter).
Yes. Set "minimum cell width (pixels)" to a value slightly larger than the width of your widest character.
You can achieve this by setting "border width" and "border height" to the same size as your texture page. So if your texture pages are 256x256, set the border to 256x256 also.
This usually signifies a problem with the alpha channel.
If you are using transparency in your textures:
Alternatively, if you are intentionally not using transparency:
If you want to write your own reader from scratch, a great place to start is Wotsit's Format,
an online repository of file format information.
For the more complex image formats, a ready-made library may be more appropriate. If you're using C/C++, the following links may be useful:
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