Generate bitmap texture from bitmap font and string

Question

I downloaded nice bitmap fonts and I can easily convert them to many other bitmap font formats (.fon,.sfd ...) using FontForge

but I'm missing very basic thing - how to generate actual bitmap image?

Given input text string like this (enumeration ASCII characters 32...126 ):

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~`

I want to get output picture like this:

Why? Because my 3D engine cannot read .fon or .sfd format, it can read images and use them as texture atlas

Answer 1

You could try pbmtext from the netpbm toolkit. It can read a couple different font formats (BDF, PBM) and generate images using the font.