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Smeargle

Smeargle is a program for rendering text as graphics using a bitmap font. It presently comes in two flavors:

• Python -- the original implementation, built on top of PyQt5
• C#

Both flavours provide similar functionality; however, the Python version uses JSON for configuration and the C# version uses TOML for configuration.

Features

• deduplication (optional)
• configurable tilemap output (compatible with Thingy32 and Atlas/Cartographer)
• support for monospace/fixed-width and variable-width bitmap fonts
• PNG inputs and outputs
• output limits (minimum width, maximum width)
• Unicode-based glyph mapping
• palette specification (Python-specific, required by PyQt if you want a fixed palette order)