Re: [Fontforge-users] Fontforge-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 5

[Khaled H. <kha...@eg...>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 05:00:19PM +0200, Gé van Gasteren wrote:
> In the past, most fonts had two parts: vector description and bitmaps
> for the most common point sizes. Now, if you open those fonts in a
> font editing program, it normally opens just the vector part. To get
> at the bitmaps, you have to open the font in a different way, import
> the bitmaps as an addition to the vector part already opened, or use a
> bitmap font editor to directly open and edit the bitmaps.

If you open an SFNT font with bitmap strikes in FontForge, it will ask
you if you want to load the bitmaps as well.

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer