On Sunday 08 September 2002 8:34 pm, Jungshik Shin wrote: | On 8 Sep 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | > There are three standards for TTFs: Apple's TTF spec, which you're | > quoting, Microsoft's TTF spec, and the Adobe-Microsoft OpenType spec. | > | > Embedded bitmaps are treated differently by the Apple and Microsoft | > specs, and I'm trying to follow Microsoft in fonttootf. In | > particular, I'm using an EBDT table rather than a bdat table. The | | FWIW, I've tried to install several bitmap-only TTFs (gen. by | fonttootf) including three of them you made from GNU unifont into Fonts | folder of Windows 2k. Win2k refused to install them complaining that | they are invalid. Given that there are three (possibly conflicting) | standards and that the purpose of fonttootf is to produce fonts to use | with XF86 and freetype, I don't think it's a concern that bitmap-only | fonts generated by fontootf can't get installed under Windows. Anyway, | I'm just posting this result FYI.
Well, I have tried to install both TrueType and OpenType font, which has only bitmap fonts inside, on Windows 98 (with Adobe Type Manager 4.1 installed, it supports OTF). Font was generated with PfaEdit. Windows accepts TrueType font (no complaigns). But OpenType font can't be installed/displayed. I think it's limitation of Adobe Type Manager, and Windows (and not really a problem of PfaEdit or FreeType). And wether Adobe/MS should fix it, or we ignore it and treat as Adobe/MS bug. BTW: I have found that ATM 4.1 crashes on some PS Type1 fonts, which are displayed/rendered correctly by FreeType/XFree86. Finally work-around for this problem has been found,and I produced version of that font compatible with ATM. But I again believe, that problem (in this case) is in ATM. In case you want to reproduce such crash, those fonts are still available at: http://freetype.newmail.ru/misc/cgtimes.zip http://freetype.newmail.ru/misc/universe.zip Latest version of PfaEdit has a command which allows to fix this problem (you rescale glyphs/unit sizes from 2048 to 1000, it's the value required/expected by PS renderer; not required by FreeType2, though) | | Jungshik | | _______________________________________________ | 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
