C64 Character Set to TrueType Converter
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C64TTF.py is a script for converting partial C64 memory dumps, in the form of
64c-files, into TrueType font files for use on modern operating systems.
History
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1.0 (2013-11-27) Uploaded initial version to GitHub
1.1 (2014-03-25) Fixed the MacRoman CMAP table. Added Danish characters.
1.2 (2016-10-18) Fixed glyph order. Removed Numpy dependency.
1.3 (2020-05-16) Ported to Python 3.
1.4 (2020-09-05) Fixed PostScript font naming.
Requirements
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Python 3
FontTools/TTX (use pip3 for this)
Syntax
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usage: c64ttf.py [-h] [-l LOWERCASE] [-u UPPERCASE] [-o OUTPUT] [-x] [-m] [-i]
[-p PIXELSIZE] [-d DESCENT] [-a] [-n NAME] [-y COPYRIGHTYEAR]
[-c CREATOR] [-v VERSION]
c64ttf.py v1.4 - C64 Character Set to TrueType Converter (c) 2013-20 atbrask
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l LOWERCASE, --lowercase LOWERCASE
Input 64C file with lowercase and uppercase
characters.
-u UPPERCASE, --uppercase UPPERCASE
Input 64C file with uppercase and graphics characters.
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output filename (default is font name + '.TTF' or
'.TTX')
-x, --xml Enable XML output (for debugging purposes)
-m, --add-missing-ascii
Add non-PETSCII characters for ASCII compatibility
(ie. grave accent, curly braces, vertical bar, tilde,
caret, backslash, and underscore)
-i, --add-missing-danish
Add special Danish characters. Needed for proper
compatibility with the Danish version of MAC OSX.
-p PIXELSIZE, --pixelsize PIXELSIZE
Pixel size in the resulting TTF file (default is 256)
-d DESCENT, --descent DESCENT
The descent below baseline in pixels (default is 1)
-a, --add-all Inserts the uppercase character set (if any) at
0xEE00...0xEEFF and the lowercase character set (if
any) at 0xEF00...0xEFFF
-n NAME, --name NAME Font name
-y COPYRIGHTYEAR, --copyrightyear COPYRIGHTYEAR
Sets copyright year
-c CREATOR, --creator CREATOR
Font creator
-v VERSION, --version VERSION
Sets font version number
NOTE:
Both -l and -u are listed as "optional arguments", but obviously at least one
of them has to be specified.
Example
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Usable files can be found in the "Character Sets"-section at this page (which
is not mine by the way):
http://kofler.dot.at/c64/
Given the input files c64_lower.64c and c64_upper.64c:
./c64ttf.py -l c64_lower.64c -u c64_upper.64c -o c64.ttf -m -a \
-n "Commodore 64" -y 1982 -c Commodore -v "1.00"
This will create a font called "Commodore 64" with all lowercase, uppercase,
and graphics characters included. Additionally, the missing ASCII characters
are included as well.