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Pixel Font Converter!

Lets you create your own TTF fonts out of pixel font images! · By YellowAfterlife

I found this tool to be really useful in the past, now it doesn't seem to function anymore?

A topic by Samuli Pietikäinen created 10 days ago Views: 238 Replies: 9
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Any small change I make, even to the template one, breaks the tool. I keep getting this error message.
"Build error! TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object"

Already tried switching browsers, but that did nothing? strange! Help appreciated. 

Developer

Hard to tell..? Is this with web version or downloadable one? And before you make a change, does the default font build and show up?

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Sorry for being so vague! I tried both web and the downloadable versions, and the default font does build and show up^^ After even touching that 'character input' screen it stops working. I could get screenshots, but not sure if that really helps much.

Developer

And if you open the previous version on Wayback Machine, does that work?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250126224026/https://yal.cc/r/20/pixelfont/

Yeah this works well, no problems whatsoever! Thanks. Let me know if you need anything with tracking the bug, or something.

Hello. I'm seeing the exact same issue (same error message) with the new version. I have the previous downloadable version and it works fine for the same image and settings. Using up to date Chrome.

Developer

As of yet I have not been able to reproduce this in neither Firefox nor the 4 different Chromium-based browsers that I have installed so I’m kind of at loss as to what this could be.

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im not sure if this is the exact same issue or if it could be related, but i’ve noticed on some fonts i have now get a similar error and i can no longer export TTF/OTF

what they have in common is that they don’t have “ “ (space)

(reason they dont have spaces is that they’re “components”, glyphs later to be merged into a larger singular font, rather than being proper fonts)

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i can easily workaround this by just appending a space though

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i can see the error being thrown in Vivaldi’s and Firefox’s console (when i append then remove the space), though i don’t really know what’s going on 😅

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Developer

Pushed a fix for this one

But is that what the other two people were seeing..?

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I've just tried to reproduce the error using the same font image and settings, but have been unable to do it.  5 days ago, the issue was consistently happening for me using the offline and online versions.  I see that Chrome has updated itself since then...  In the meantime, I was able to get around the issue by using an older offline version.