Magnum::Text::MagnumFont class
#include <MagnumPlugins/MagnumFont/MagnumFont.h>

Simple bitmap font plugin.

The font consists of two files, one text file containing character and glyph info and one TGA file containing the glyphs in distance field format. The font can be conveniently created from any other format using MagnumFontConverter. The file syntax is as in following:

# Font image filename
image=font.tga

# Size of unscaled font image
originalImageSize=1536 1536

# Glyph padding
padding=9

# Font size
fontSize=128

# Line height
lineHeight=270

# Character
[char]

# UTF-32 codepoint ('a')
unicode=0061

# Glyph ID
glyph=1

# Advance to next character in pixels (i.e. on unscaled font image)
advance=45 0

# Another character
[char]
unicode=0062
glyph=2
advance=42 0

# ...

# Glyph 0, a.k.a. "Not Found" glyph
[glyph]

# Glyph texture position relative to baseline, in pixels
position=5 -1

# Glyph rectangle in font image, in pixels (left, bottom, right, top)
rectangle=0 0 42 25

# Glyph 1
[glyph]
position=0 0
rectangle=45 0 44 25

# ...

Usage

This plugin depends on the Text library and the TgaImporter plugin. It is built if MAGNUM_WITH_MAGNUMFONT is enabled when building Magnum. To use as a dynamic plugin, load "MagnumFont" via Corrade::PluginManager::Manager.

Additionally, if you're using Magnum as a CMake subproject, do the following:

set(MAGNUM_WITH_MAGNUMFONT ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
add_subdirectory(magnum EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)

# So the dynamically loaded plugin gets built implicitly
add_dependencies(your-app Magnum::MagnumFont)

To use as a static plugin or as a dependency of another plugin with CMake, you need to request the MagnumFont component of the Magnum package and link to the Magnum::MagnumFont target:

find_package(Magnum REQUIRED MagnumFont)

# ...
target_link_libraries(your-app PRIVATE Magnum::MagnumFont)

Because the plugin needs access to Trade::AbstractImporter plugins, you need to instantiate a manager for them and register it with Corrade::PluginManager::Manager::registerExternalManager():

PluginManager::Manager<Trade::AbstractImporter> importerManager;
PluginManager::Manager<Text::AbstractFont> fontManager;
fontManager.registerExternalManager(importerManager);

See Downloading and building, Usage with CMake, Loading and using plugins and File format support for more information.

Base classes

class AbstractFont
Base for font plugins.

Constructors, destructors, conversion operators

MagnumFont() explicit
Default constructor.
MagnumFont(PluginManager::AbstractManager& manager, const Containers::StringView& plugin) explicit
Plugin manager constructor.