Node.js support

[remcoder]

add a util function to load an font file on the server-side

[switer]

can it support nodejs now ？

[remcoder]

Thanks for pinging me. This was long overdue.

There's some preliminary node support now in the new node-version branch. See this example: test.js. You'll need to cd into the js directory or otherwise it cannot find the font files.

For now, the node js support is pretty basic. I haven't looked into creating an actual npm package for example.

I hope you find it useful. Suggestions and/or PR's are always welcome ;-)

[switer]

Thanks, I thank it's usefull for me. When I cd into test/ and run node test, it catch "Unable to parse font!" error. What's the problem.

[remcoder]

You should be cd'ing into js not test. What platform are you on? I have only tested on OSX. Also, can you give me a stracktrace?

[switer]

I try cd into js and node test, it also catch that error, running on node 0.10.13 win7 64. I have try it on OSX, it runs fine. @remcoder can your make it support for windows ?

[switer]

@remcoder , i have found the problem that cause the error, in windows bdf file is in windows line ending, save bdf file with unix line ending, it runs file.

[remcoder]

Thx for reporting back. I appreciate it ;-)

[Qix-]

FWIW adding node support was stupid easy - nice job @remcoder. It was just a matter of changing the loadFont function to use fs.readFile() and then exporting the Pxxl function.

For some reason, the small font doesn't work for me but the others do. Nice :)