Well for me I just wrote my own utilities to do said conversion and used GIMP with it. For greater than 1 bpp image fields and bitmaps I converted the image to gray scale (set the saturation to 0) then reduced the color count to 4 using the posterization tool. It does require some contrast stretching, however it does work.

Fonts are a little tricky especially if you have a fixed symbol set (IE 0-9'.''-' for example).  In this case I had to write a custom tool to generate the font data and convert it to 1bpp depth bitmap data.

When your total memory budget is 32K it can be challenging on your patience to have 2 different fonts and 15 icons in that (some rather big).

The main thing is to Keep It Simple.  If you tweak a bitmap like I did SAVE the tweaked bitmap.  Also for creating the data keep the tools and there source code with your project or it could be a problem for someone else later on.

Also LOOK up freetype http://www.freetype.org/


Stephen


      
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