On Friday 16 August 2002 3:49 am, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
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| (Note that not all have negative args to endchar) and that the CFF
| versions do not have cvt or loca tables. It is probably the lack of
| one of those two tables that keeps ftview from displaying the bitmaps
| in the otf
I'm attaching a little test program that you should run on 8x13.bdf
and 8x13.pcf. Please notice the (x, y) couple printed for every
glyph, which are, respectively,
face-glyph-metrics.horiBearingX and
face-glyph-metrics.horiBearingY.
The 8x13 font has a bounding box of (0, -2)
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 1:21 am, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
| Kaixo!
|
| On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:35:33PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
| I'm currently exploring the possibility of moving XFree86 from the PCF
| format to the sfnt format for bitmap fonts. I've encountered a number
|
|
Kaixo!
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:44:13PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
| You should also decide on an extenson name other than .ttf, to avoid
| that those bitmap only ttf files get confused wwith real scalable
| fonts by people out there, otherwise there would be a lot of bad
|
Vadim == Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vadim Do you have URL with fonts *ready*?
It looks like my post with the url failed to make it to the list
The 100dpi and 75dpi dirs of fonts are at:
http://jhcloos.com/fonts/bdfttf/tests/
The tar files have the bdfs and each of the four
Pablo Saratxaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kaixo!
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:44:13PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
| You should also decide on an extenson name other than .ttf, to avoid
| that those bitmap only ttf files get confused wwith real scalable
| fonts by people out there,
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
PS what will happen if one of such programs tries to use a bitmap
PS only font for displaying at a size for xhich there are no bitmaps
PS embedded ?
It will get sixty-odd thousand blank glyphs.
Juliusz
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OT I'm pretty sure Microsoft ships a number of .ttf files with only
OT bitmaps and no outlines with Windows...
Interesting. Which ones?
Juliusz
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