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https://github.com/pushfoo/Fontknife

tl;dr: a CLI bitmap font converter, slicer, and rasterizer

I would love suggestions and help with:

* The awful command line flags: which of the following sound(s) best?

  - Something FFmpeg style: repeatable optional args are applied to the previous source / output
  - Keep it as 1 input + 1 output 
  - Prioritize library use
    
* Should I keep Octo[1] code generation in this project or separate it out?

* General refactoring:

  - The current caching layer should probably be deleted
  - Replace PIL's font support with other BSD or MIT style libs

1. Octo, a CHIP-8 assembler: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

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