Chess Image 2 (EPD to PNG converter)

[Roland Chastain]

Hello everybody.

I remade my command-line tool for converting an EPD string to a PNG picture. (The first version was announced here.)

The new version creates chessboard picture directly from a TrueType font. The path to the TTF file and other settings are stored in an INI file. For now the program works only with chess fonts by Armando Hernandez Marroquin.

Usage: chessimage2 FEN

It creates a picture named chessimage2.png.



Git repository: https://github.com/rchastain2/chess-image-2
Linux and Windows binaries: https://msegui.net/downloads/chess/

The Windows binary hasn't been tested in real condition. I am not sure that it works.

Maybe someone will find it useful...

[Look]

Hi,

Interesting tool. But in your supplied image, white and black pieces seem the same.

[Roland Chastain]

Interesting tool. But in your supplied image, white and black pieces seem the same.

Fixed, thank you.

[mar]

hi Roland,

first - it looks absolutely amazing, the dashed board is so cool!
great choice of colors too, even though it's subtle

also - anti-grain geometry, great choice of a library (RIP the original author). subpixel antialiased rendering is tricky and agg is a masterpiece in design and engineering.

tried on Fedora, had to install a couple of deps (didn't find libfreetype6 out of the box), but now it works fine.

sadly the Windows version doesn't load the font for some reason and renders using a text font