Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-horizontal.pdf http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-vertical.pdf It'd look lovely in color, but do not over do it. E.g., draw the glyph in black, the axes in red, and the dimensions in blue. Nice idea! But please not too

Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:45:14AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: and the conversion from PDF to SVG is not optimal; at least not with inkscape. If you want a good PDF to SVG converter, try pdf2svg (a small tool using Poppler and Cairo, but handles text much better than Inkscape):

Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I replaced the CM font with the STIX one (most easy with matplotlib). OK. http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-horizontal.pdf http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-vertical.pdf Thanks. A very minor thing: In `glyph-metrics-vertical.pdf', the word `origin'

Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-27 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Ok. Done ! Nicolas On Oct 27, 2012, at 8:36 , Werner LEMBERG wrote: I replaced the CM font with the STIX one (most easy with matplotlib). OK. http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-horizontal.pdf http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-vertical.pdf

Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-27 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Nicolas Rougier nicolas.roug...@inria.fr wrote: http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-horizontal.pdf http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-vertical.pdf It'd look lovely in color, but do not over do it. E.g., draw the glyph in black,

[ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-26 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Hi, I just added an example in the freetype-py (python bindings) to reproduce glyph metrics as displayed on the website. You can see results at: http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics.pdf (sources:

Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
. If possible, please replace Computer Modern with another font and double its size so that everything stays readable if I scale down the image. BTW, I've just seen that on CTAN the new package tex-gyre-math is available, providing math support for Pagella and Thermes (this is,

Re: [ft-devel] Glyph metrics figures on the website

2012-10-26 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Here are the two files. I replaced the CM font with the STIX one (most easy with matplotlib). (not so sure how to use the ones you suggested with matplotlib). http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-horizontal.pdf http://webloria.loria.fr/~rougier/tmp/glyph-metrics-vertical.pdf