Since we're comparing notes on font tools, I recently was asked to look over an experimental font which had, among other things, characters in the Supplemental Multilingual Plane and used CFF format. (I had to look up what CFF format even was.)
PFAEdit was able to load the font. At least I could see the SMP characters; I didn't attempt any editing, kerning, etc. I've always been fairly impressed with PFAEdit, which probably deserves a name which reflects the fact that it goes well beyond PFA files or even Type 1 fonts. In fact, I'd like to see it ported to Windows. Font Creator Program couldn't load the font due to the CFF format, which was disappointing, because I like FCP's interface and other features, and was hoping to get an up close and personal look at some of the glyphs, which seemed to have some sort of height anomaly. On Win2K, "Character Map" (charmap.exe) does not show anything beyond the BMP. I haven't tried this on XP. Gary At 09:00 AM 11/20/2003 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: >I haven't tested this myself, but from a look at the source code, it appears that >pfaedit (pfaedit.sourceforge.net) can generate format12 TTFs. (Open Source, for >UNIX). > >~mark > >On 11/20/03 03:12, Arcane Jill wrote: > >> >>Is anyone able to answer this? I for one would really like to know. >>Thanks >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:29 AM >>> To: John Jenkins >>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters. >> >> >>> Does FontLab support generating TTF in format12 (32 bits)? >>> Which "cheaper solutions" could generating TTF in format12 (32 bits)? --- Gary Grosso Arbortext, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA
