> 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.
Thanks Don. There is an easy way of avoiding a multi-megabyte download. Grab a copy of Microsoft Office, extract the fonts from the CDs. Or go buy a font CD from any DTP vendor. Can you do either with ShillitoFonts? :) -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
