Re: [Fontforge-devel] Bugs

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 07:22, Phil wrote:
> - scircumflex & Scircumflex and other compound-chars with circumflex.=20
> FontForge thinks those chars are combined with asciicircum, which is=20
> wrong. It should be uni0302 instead.
Um, actually, it first tries 0x2c6, which is what PostScript wants. But
I will change it so that it uses 0x302 before 0x60.
> - When building compound chars many accents don't find their places on=20
> the charakter. This is with =C3=9B for example.
I have no problems. I suspect this is because the two stems of your "U"
are of different heights. You may change this behavior with
File->Preferences->Accents->CharCenterHighest (you probably want to turn
it off)
> - When turning a corner point into a tangent point on a clockwise line=20
> the line edges out. We get this problem very seldom on lines which are=20
> counter-clockwise.
You will have to send me an example of this.
> - When we generate TTF with the OpenType-Option we're not able to use=20
> kernig (we're using an up-to-date SuSE-Linux).
You don't say what application this is in. Many applications don't kern.
I know there is a bug in kerning in recent version of OpenOffice. If you
can find something wrong with my kerning tables I will look at it
> - TrueType-Hinting is quite important for our project. Are you planning=
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> to work on it in future?
Maybe. I need inspiration.
> - We had some background-images in a file. When opening the file with a=
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> recent version, all backgroundimages got lost. Even a new Import is gon=
e=20
> after saving and reopening.
Oh dear, you are quite correct.
> Ideas:
> - FontForge starts with an Opening-dialogue. So I often press "new" and=
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> then "file, recent, ...". Couldn't the opening-dialogue present recent=20
> files in a special part of the window?
It does. There is a pull down list to the right of the filename field.