Block style font

[habbosrus]

I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the correct place. If not, I apologise.
I have a small matrix that I am hoping to scroll some text across. It is only 5 pixels high so I was looking for a block style font to use. I have tried a bunch of the fonts available in Nutcracker with some success but was hoping there was a block style font available, as the fonts I've used so far have some anomalies. I have attached a pic of a style I am looking for. Is this style of font available?


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[sean]

I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the correct place. If not, I apologise.
I have a small matrix that I am hoping to scroll some text across. It is only 5 pixels high so I was looking for a block style font to use. I have tried a bunch of the fonts available in Nutcracker with some success but was hoping there was a block style font available, as the fonts I've used so far have some anomalies. I have attached a pic of a style I am looking for. Is this style of font available?

the smallest fornt we have is 7 pixels high. you could try putting a gif or jpg using the pictures effect and have the image have your text on it

[scuba]

Sean
About 6-8 months ago we had a discussion about text on an asymmetric matrix.  you may recall that  I've got a mega tree (180) that has 10 vertical lines with 240 pixels on each vertical line.  When I put text on it, its very distorted (except very near the top).  Is there a way to do this so the text looks 'normal'?

I thought I could make gif files that had the text distorted, then scroll it across the tree.  Is there a better way?
John

[sean]

the text is being drawn with wxwidgets routines. i dont know if we can scale that data. ill need to ask Matt, he wrote the text effect

[scuba]

Thanks

[djulien]

I have tried a bunch of the fonts available in Nutcracker with some success but was hoping there was a block style font available, as the fonts I've used so far have some anomalies. I have attached a pic of a style I am looking for. Is this style of font available?

5x5 fonts can be made readable if you use a bitmap instead of text.  There are examples of old 5x5 dot matrix fonts available on the web. For example:
http://www.dafont.com/5x5.font or http://www.google.com/search?q=5x5+bitmap+font&tbm=isch

I found that small 5x5 text is quite readable as block letters if you make a bitmap out of the letters and then display it using the Picture effect (optionally with scrolling), rather than using the Text effect.

(sorry for the late reply; I'm behind in my reading)

don