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

[Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...>]

Another option is to use the eval copy of Font Creator 
Program (FCP) from www.high-logic.com. The advantage of 
this package compared to Fontographer is that this does not 
knock-off the OpenType tables added by VOLT. Invariably, 
when you create OTF, you need to iterate between a font 
glyph editing package and VOLT. FCP and FontLab are the 
wtoo font glyph editing packages that I know which don't 
knock-off the OTF tables added by VOLT.

-Pavanaja

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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