TDFTool
A program for rendering TheDraw fonts to the terminal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
The largest collection of TDF fonts that I know of are available at:
http://www.roysac.com/thedrawfonts-tdf.html
Usage
After running make, and assuming you have Roy's TDF files unpacked to ../THEDRAWFONTS, run:
Run:
./tdftool ../THEDRAWFONTS/DUNGEON2.TDF HELLO
There is a quick and dirty test suite that can be run with:
make test
Currently it only outputs the fonts in the original Codepage 437 format. I'm working on Unicode support in the future, however for now, if you need them to display on a UNIX/Linux terminal, rather than on DOS you'll need to convert them with iconv, eg.
./tdftool ../THEDRAWFONTS/DUNGEON2.TDF HELLO | iconv -f CP437 -t UTF8
To display them on Windows there seems to be a few solutions, although I haven't tested these yet:
https://github.com/peteri/Ansi-Cat
https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon/
And of course you should be able to load them into PabloDraw as an .ANS file, or use the output from iconv.
This utility can render over 1,000 of them, although the accuracy of the results has not been completely verified. I'm working on resolving the issues with the ~120 fonts or so that this can't render yet. Accordingly, if you find a TDF file that it cannot render, please provide a link to the file and let me know about it, hopefully I can fix it.
Current only TYPE_BLOCK and TYPE_COLOR fonts are supported. TYPE_OUTLINE will be hopefully be supported in a future version. Unfortunately there are not a lot of TYPE_OUTLINE fonts in the collection (I only count four).
This should be considered very early alpha code, do not use anywhere near production. There are still assert() all over the place to help with debugging and there are some known issues with realloc() here and there. I will fix these as I can get time to work on them. Some fonts do not yet render correctly (other than the aforementioned TYPE_OUTLINE) and I am keeping a list of those I've observed in the KNOWNBAD file.
Many thanks to Roy for collecting the fonts and providing workable specifications for the font format on his site.