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

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@hb...>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:24:17AM -0700, Baiju M 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.

I noticed that some thing of this kind may have happened since the
output ttf file from pfaedit was smaller than the original.  I will
have to continue working like this because I have no fontographer in
my office.  Besides I will patiently wait till the technology in the
free software world improves.

Nagarjuna