Re: [Indic-computing-users] Font info extraction

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

jitendra wrote:
> Dear Sayamindu
> We apologise that we are new to this area and hence need some help.
> We are trying to convert akruti fonts to otf fonts using volt.
> We also have raghu.ttf font with us. We would like to compare these two
> Fonts  w.r.t
> 1) no.of glyphs
> 2) substitution rules
> 3) positioning rules
> 
>  however volt supports opening of only one font at a time
> 
  Have you tried opening two copies of VOLT same time? (I could do it on 
Win98, with copies of same font, having diff name )

> i) so we would like to know if there is any other tool which will allow
> us to compare   the two fonts simultaneously?
> 
>  ii)  is there any way to print the tables in a font ?(substitution
> rules,positioning etc.)
> 
  ftdump utility gives a barebones details,on what features & lookups 
are there.

> iii) we have opened a ttf font in ms-word
>       it showed the font details like glyph id,Unicode no.,rules etc
>       is there a way (free tools)  to extract these  information from
> the font.ttf file?
>
  fonttools.sourceforge.net has TTX tool which dumps font to .ttx , an 
XML format. It also takes .ttx & generate .ttf/.otf .

Regards,
Karunakar


> Jitendra (with students Sunil, Vikas, Prashant,Swapnil,Sachin)
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