Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Roadmap - suggestions

[<jk...@Fr...>]

>>>>> "gk" == "G Karunakar" writes:

gk> Pfaedit stores all the font data as a spline font database (.sfd) (it uses cubic splines) , which is plain text. A sample for a glyph definition is given below


> ------------------
> StartChar: exclam
> Encoding: 3073 3073
> Width: 387
> Flags: W
> VStem: 221 37<108 140>
> Fore
> 388 -16 m 1
>  387.333 -18.6667 379 -20 363 -20 c 0
>  333.667 -20 305.333 -10.3333 278 9 c 0
>  240.667 35.6667 221.667 73.6667 221 123 c 0


gk> So this .sfd can be cosidered as font source and can be released . If there are any reservations about the tool, I would say at present this is the only free good enough tool to do scalable font design in *nix platform.


PfaEdit is an interesting tool. 

I'm concerned that relying on its internal storage format as a primary
font specification method may be risky.  Internal formats change.
Also, the internal format seems rather low-level; a human would
probably find it difficult to read and change it directly.
Consequently, people will not be able to take and improve these fonts
to the extent that we wished they could.

Regards,
Koshy
<jk...@fr...>