Re: [Indic-computing-users] Akruthi fonts need to be encoded

[Baiju M <mal...@ya...>]

--- Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> --- "Nagarjuna G." <nag...@hb...> wrote:
> > 
> > We started working with the akruthi fonts with a team of
> volunteers.
> > With these set of fonts I think the following needs to be
> done.
> > 
> > 1. First the fonts are not encoded for utf-8 input method. 
> So the
> > font file should be opened in a editor (pfaedit) and cut
> paste the
> > glyphs at the appropriate unicode pages and recreate the
> fonts.
> 
> If you open and save font in pfaEdit then there will be some
> loss in
> quality of glyphs because pfaEdit converts Quadratic-Bezier
> curves into
> Cubic-Bezier curves. 

This minor loss happens only when you saving the font as a
TrueType font.

Regards,
Baiju M




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