On Monday 09 September 2002 5:30 am, Baiju M wrote: | Hi, | I am planning to develop an OTF font for an Indic language. | MS typography documents says that, an Indic language only requires GSUB | and GPOS advanced tables. | 1. When will X support OTF font?
It's certanly here. I mean: XFree86 *can* display OpenType fonts. FreeType2 supports such fonts, so there is no problem rendering/displaying such fonts. I have tested several fonts produced with PfaEdit, they are displayed fine, say, in KWord or Konqueror. Printing with OpenType fonts doesn't work in KDE3, though. But it's related to Qt3/font embedding/subsetting, XF doesn't have infrastructure for font embedding/subsetting. David Turner, of FreeType project, was thinking to write library which will provide unified API for those taks, but that librray is not ready. So, different projects/libraries (Pango, Qt3, OpenOffice, Mozilla) use different approach here. | 2. Any tool to edit GSUB and GPOS tables? (I dont want to use VOLT) | Anyone used PfaEdit (or TtfMod), I heared that there is a perl module, | Can I use these things? or any other tools? I use PfaEdit, it's certanly matured, and can be successfully used for font creation tasks. If you want to edit GSUB and GPOS tables - well, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (cc'ed), I guess your mail canbe treated as "wishlist", and support for this can be added to the future versions of PfaEdit. | 3. What all other tables necessary along with TrueType outlines? | | Thanks, | Baiju M | _______________________________________________ | 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
