On 17-Nov-02, Ken Shillito wrote: > > Truetype fonts for the Unicode characters from 0000 to > FFFF (as for example issued by Microsoft) take up > many megabytes. > > How can you get glyphs for about 65000 characters > without multi-megabyte downloads?
MSGothic is a 4 Meg file. Not a heavy burden when my Amithlon computer has 512 Megs of RAM and any PPC based Amiga will have at least as much. The problem with creating custom bitmap fonts (as you seem to be doing) is that storing all those characters in every possible font size (especially the larger sizes) will take up enormous amounts of drive space - far more than the 4 Megs used by the TT font file. You are going to store a 72 point Amiga font, a 73 point Amiga font, a 74 point Amiga font ..... That loses the whole reason for using an outline font in the first place. Of course I may have misunderstood what you are doing, but personally I long since dumped all large sizes of 1-bit Amiga fonts and keep only small sizes and colour fonts. Regards -- Don Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
