Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Roadmap - suggestions
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From: Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...> - 2001-12-25 07:25:38
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 20:28:31 -0800 (PST) jk...@Fr... (Joseph Koshy) wrote: > > PfaEdit is an interesting tool. > Its the only one good enough to do interesting stuff. Others like Spif (http://www.gh.cs.su.oz.au/~matty/Spif/ , still very primitive to do useful stuff), GOTE (Gnome opentype editor, gote.sf.net, dev is stalled) are nowhere near to pfaedit. And there are umpteen BDF editors. In windoz world also most tools are commercial, only good enough shareware one is Font Creator (www.high-logic.com), its a 30 day shareware, but no feature limitations (even after 30 days). Fontographer costs about $350 . So for free font desigining there is very little choice of tools. > 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. > In that case Type1/TTF format is open enough, for anyone to write tools (or use available ones) to edit them. So fonts can be given as TTFs itself. Regards, Karunakar |