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

[G K. <kar...@fr...>]

Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> 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.
> 
  You could use Font Creator, see www.high-logic.com, recently v3.1 was 
released, this has help file too..

Regards,
Karunakar