Hi Folks, Steve, I'm trying to use node-red-contrib-image-tools to create a label to be output to a Dymo LabelWriter 450. After some head scratching a couple of days ago I managed to get my pi 3B talking to the Dymo printer over USB. This morning I've been playing some more and have a label templ…

[image] RaptorUK: This is where I'm struggling . . . are TTF fonts supported Unfortunately the underlying library doesn't support TrueType fonts. Only bitmap based fnt fonts. To add barcodes you need a node that generates an image and then you composite it or blit it onto your image. I have…

[image] Steve-Mcl: Unfortunately the underlying library doesn't support TrueType fonts. Only bitmap based fnt fonts. Hi Steve, thanks for the very quick reply. So if I can find a Code 39 bitmap font at the right size that should work . . . cool, I'll get searching.

[image] RaptorUK: So if I can find a Code 39 bitmap font at the right size that should work . . . cool, I'll get searching. Well that wasn't so simple . . . turns out it's not just a good old Windows type Bitmap font . . . Some info here: Home · libgdx/libgdx Wiki · GitHub and https://db…

[image] RaptorUK: Have a little issue with the font not wanting to print as big as it should be but it's getting late now . . . So when creating the Bitmap font I was making it bigger gradually to fit my available label space, but it didn't seem to be getting bigger on the label. I found the…

Yes, if I remember right, they are cached. You would need to restart node-red to reload a fnt

[image] Steve-Mcl: Yes, if I remember right, they are cached. You would need to restart node-red to reload a fnt Hi Steve, I've just created a few different size options with the size as a suffix to the font name, now when I change the font name it updates correctly on my label. So I have c…

[image] Steve-Mcl: I have (in a local version of image tools) already creating barcodes (including code 39) that plays nicely with imagetools but it's not ready to publish I'm afraid Hi @RaptorUK I have now published V2.x of image-tools and barcode generation is finally finished. [kCGaUd0gI…

[image] Steve-Mcl: I have now published V2.x of image-tools and barcode generation is finally finished. Very nice, I'm almost finished the hardware debugging part of my project so will be moving on to the Node Red side more during the next few weeks. I'll let you know how I get on and if I …

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Sorry, one other question . . . how/where do I set the size of the font ?

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