On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:38 -0700, Scott Dattalo wrote:

> I'm going to continue to experiment some more to see if there's a better
> combination. The proof in the pudding is how it looks on a real LCD. It'll
> be a while before I have the hardware.

http://www.dattalo.com/lcd2.png

This contains a screen shot of an anti-aliased font for the numbers 0-9.
(There are bitmaps and other junk on the screen too). This is not the most
esthetically pleasing (in my opinion), but I've got most of the tedious
part of converting from a generic PC-based font to  4-bit gray scale LCD
font. You can compare this font to the 5x7 1-bit font at the bottom. This
screen shot is from my simulator.

In the example, I followed Daniel's suggestion and used gimp to create the
graphical image. In this case, I simply used a Courier 10 Pitch font. I
exported the image to XPM and wrote a utility to convert from XPM to a PIC
include file. I haven't broken the string into a font yet (so it's still
one big xpm).

The next step I'll take is to convert the big XPM into a font. After, that
I plan to refine the conversion process so everything is automatic (there
are some manual steps I left out in the description above).

Scott
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