Testing Your Install

These steps are recommended but not required. You can skip them if you’d like.

Checking if it Runs

Run fontknife convert --help to see if help options print.

This lets you be reasonably sure Fontknife installed, but not help options, you can be reasonably sure the install worked.

A Test Spritesheet

  1. Download tom-thumb.bdf from the bottom of this page

  2. Run fontknife convert -p tom-thumb.bdf sheet.png

  3. The output file should be identical to the one below:

    The image file which font knife should generate.

It’s tiny (64 x 72 px) because the input data is a 3 x 5 pixel font.