Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Roadmap - suggestions
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From: Arun S. <ar...@sh...> - 2001-12-25 04:41:15
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:28:31PM -0800, Joseph Koshy wrote: > PfaEdit is an interesting tool. The Kannada font sahyadri I (pre) announced yesterday was created using pfaedit. > > 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. Is there an alternative we're considering ? Since open type and true type fonts are documented open standards [1], most font editing tools should be able to import glyphs and reedit. For eg, sahyadri is based on another kannada font called baraha (http://www.baraha.com/). I imported baraha.ttf glyphs into pfaedit and reencoded them with unicode, apart from changing the glyphs. Also interesting is a tool called VOLT from Microsoft. It's a free download from MS (no source) and helps create substitution tables in an open type font file (for eg: replace "glyph123 glyph456", with glyph 789). -Arun [1] The specifications are freely available but don't know about patents. |