On 06/10/2009, at 20:36 , Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
> Behalf
>> Of Sean Alcorn
>> Sent: 05 October 2009 19:40
>> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>> Subject: Re: [OT] LCD text to JPG tool?
>>
>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> Is a font any use to you?
>>
>> http://www.dafont.com/lcddot.font
>>
>> It's free, but you could credit the author.
>>
>
> One problem with this (and many other LCD-like fonts) is that they  
> have
> descenders on characters (e.g. on 'y' and 'g' ) where standard 5x8  
> LCD's
> do not support this, so they aren't very realistic.

For the purposes of a manual, I would have said it was good enough.

>  The font on Tom
> McGahee's web site as linked by Bob emulates the 5x8 LCD characters
> correctly.

Even better - but aren't we talking about 5x7 characters here?

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