ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Apr 27, 2015 7:08 am #15792 Hi,

the u8g works very well but I have one problem. How do I create a new xbm file. I have tried GIMP but the files created by GIMP are not displayed correctly. Is there a special tool to do that ?

Thomas

- Fri May 01, 2015 4:37 am #16168

Hi,

the u8g works very well but I have one problem. How do I create a new xbm file. I have tried GIMP but the files created by GIMP are not displayed correctly. Is there a special tool to do that ?

Thomas

Moin,

isn't xbm the text based image format? If it is you may take a text editor to look into it and find out why your gimp created
files fail.

Good luck,
Cal

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- Sat May 16, 2015 6:39 am #17548 There's a conversion step required before XBM can be used. It's mentioned in the README.md (still in dev branch):

In contrast to the source code based inclusion of XBMs into u8glib, it's required to provide precompiled binary files. This can be performed online with Online-Utility's Image Converter: Convert from XBM to MONO format and upload the binary result with nodemcu-uploader.py.

Hope this helps.