Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Hirwen Harendal
PS: Who knows a TrueType debugger for MS Windows (this is, which uses the rendering engine of MS Windows!) similar to FontForge? Ideally, this should run under Wine also... Maybe from MS http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.aspx -- Hirwen HARENDAL

Re: [ft-devel] [ttfautohint] stem width handling is now selectable

2012-07-02 Thread Hirwen Harendal
to work 'as' windows. That said the best way seems to use WIN directly or into virtualbox. I don't know if somebody is enough crasy to buy a license only for testing in vitualbox (:-]) In addition, if my mind is good, MS cleartype power toy doesn't work with Wine. -- Hirwen HARENDAL

[ft-devel] Test

2012-06-26 Thread Hirwen HARENDAL
Good evening all Please find below a test archives you can use for your own tests.http://min.us/mbmHmRQv0e - This package includes Mintspirit fonts (otf), Mintysis TTF version of Mintspirit (ttf-base and TTF autohinted with TTFAH), some images of waterfall font and a PDFto compare both font

Re: [ft-devel] GDI ClearType support for ttfautohint available

2012-06-25 Thread Hirwen Harendal
separately, without problem -- Hirwen HARENDAL harendal ttfautohint # ./bootstrap ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out ttfautohint sources... ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files... Submodule '.gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git

[ft-devel] FW: PDF text rendering error

2012-06-12 Thread Hirwen HARENDAL
font convertion PS to TTF without direction changeor bold mode from regular with bad directions. ** Is your font is: http://www.nec.co.jp/csr/en/report2009/cs/ud/ud01.html at Universal Design Fonts ? Regards Hirwen HARENDAL

Re: [ft-devel] FW: PDF text rendering error

2012-06-12 Thread Hirwen HARENDAL
Werner, please excuse my emphasis The font is OK. As I've mentioned before, it is *not* possible to edit this font with FontLab or FontForge! ** No smoke without fire... Sorry, but St Thomas was one of my students :-) You need a special editor to handle those rare fonts which use bytecode to

Re: [ft-devel] display broken

2012-05-30 Thread Hirwen HARENDAL
Hi Werner an hour ago my computer screen backlight has died. :-( It will take a few days until a replacement screen arrives, delaying most of my computer activities. ** Very bad news... Blacklight desktop or laptop? Well, I've read that that Apple is going to sell iBooks with `retina

Re: [ft-devel] TTfautohint issues with small counters

2012-05-30 Thread Hirwen HARENDAL
Hi Vern e.g. when the gap between dot and stem in 'i' gets blocked, it's bad font design and can easilly be corrected ;) . ** Maybe because the latin module of TTFAH treats i (and j) using the blue zone of small letter likef (fijbdkhl), when the design choice (not bad design !) not have