On Tuesday 20 August 2002 9:55 pm, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | PS> You should also decide on an extenson name other than .ttf, | | I'm thinking of using .otf. The OpenType spec explicitly allows | bitmap-only OTF fonts. | | It should also be legal to generate .ttf fonts, under the condition | that I generate at least one entry in each of hmtx, glyf, and loca | (which I'm doing by default right now).
See my another mail: Fonts made by James H. Cloos Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, URL: http://jhcloos.com/fonts/bdfttf/tests/ are displayed o.k. by ftview in TrueType format, but ftview dispalys nothing for .otf format. Tested with ftview/freetype 2.1.1 | | PS> to avoid that those bitmap only ttf files get confused wwith real | PS> scalable fonts by people out there, otherwise there would be a lot | PS> of bad consequences. | | By default, I'm generating fonts which are perfectly valid TTF fonts. | To a non-sbit aware rasteriser, they will appear as fonts with only | one blank scalalble glyph. | | The good thing is that no existing software should crash on them. The | bad thing is that existing software will happily use them, which may | lead to user confusion. | | The alternative is to generate no loca or glyf tables at all, and | using the ``OTTO'' signature in the font's header. Existing software | should refuse to load such fonts, which will minimise user confusion. | | I'm waiting for the FreeType crowd to decide whether they wish to | support such fonts. | | Juliusz | _______________________________________________ | Fonts mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts