Quentin wrote...

>I have looked at the links at piclist.com and could not find what I
>need.
>I want to take a  bitmap picture, specify HxW and generate a look up
>table of hex (or bin) values.
>
>Currently I want to show large numbers on a graphics LCD. So I want to
>take the numbers from a certain font, get the size (in pixels) and
>generate the lookup table from it (for a PIC, btw.).
>
>Any links/ideas?

I had a similar problem, though a completely different application.

What I did was use Paintshop Pro to capture a screen image at the
resolution I wanted, then copied and pasted the particular feature I was
after to a new image which I then saved as a Windows .BMP file.  I could
have used any other format, but .BMP was the one I had the clearest file
format information on.

Then I wrote and ran a short program to read the .BMP file and output a
hex ASCII file.  I didn't save the program after I'd got done with it
(it was that short and easy) but the only complication I recall running
into was that @#$%$#%&$ Windoze .BMP files store images "upside down"
and I had to turn them rightside up.

Figures...

Dave

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