[Fonts] Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

2006-01-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
So I'd like to make the following changes to David's proposal: All of this looks very promising. I think the final decision on the table format can only be done after converting a bunch of BDFs forth and back. Werner ___ Fonts mailing list

[Fonts] Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

2006-01-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I also recall discussions which discovered that the .otb extension was otherwise unused in most of the world. It doesn't matter at all to me; I ask FreeType to try and open the font, completely ignoring the extension has proven a valuable property, although it does sometimes challenge the

[Fonts] Re: [Freetype] Encodings XLFDs within sfnt

2003-07-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
In order to preserve bitmap font names as we switch to sfnt for XFree86, I need to have fonttosfnt put the original font name in some place where mkfontscale can find it. The proper way would be to formally define a new sfnt table, for example ``XF86''. However, I think it is simpler and

[Fonts]Re: [Freetype] FreeType bug report

2002-09-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
1. FreeType crashes at ttgload.c:103 if hhea-number_Of_HMetrics is 0. The problem is with k, which is assumed to be at least 1. I've just added a guard, thanks. 2. FreeType refuses to get an sbit that has a glyph index beyond maxp-numGlyphs. Note that the OpenType spec explicitly

[Fonts]Re: [Freetype] Buggy metrics with FreeType 2 and BDF or PCF fonts?

2002-08-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
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)

Re: [Freetype] Re: [Fonts]New versions of mkfontscale and FreeType2 backend

2002-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
RG (I tested it with Arphic TTF which be distributed with most RG Linux distributions and all *BSD.) Hmm, there may be problems with this font; I'm told it has bugs. Maybe the FreeType folks can comment? Yes, Just's ttDump reports a problem with the `glyf' table (and dies :-) -- all other