On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> I have the font LCDGRID, but it does not have the complete font contained on the
> HD44780.  I'm sure I'd be re-inventing the wheel were I to create a new font.
>
> I would like to know if anyone knows where I could find a complete (or mostly
> complete) LCD Display font.  This is needed to document a PIC project...


Good timing. I just got the full font yesterday:

http://www.dattalo.com/gnupic/lcd.html


Now, the code I wrote extracts the 'font' from an xpm that I created from
a gif file I found on Peer O's web page. It's actually a perl script that
I called caps.pl (see the comments and you'll know why it's called that).
The "extracted font" consists of ascii encoded bitmaps that I then use to
create xpm's for the LCD font you see on the web page. You're free (in GPL
sense of the word) to use this code to create your own display. The code
uses gtk and runs under Linux.

Scott