[Indic-computing-users] FROM PRC: Font editor

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:


> On 12 Dec 2002 at 21:44, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > complications which may be involved), and that will need some hacking.
> > Of course, a major advantage is that there is already an "official"
> > Devnagari font from M$, and you can use that for reference. 
> 
> I was editing mangal in pfaedit and found that pfaedit specified the unicode 
> character above each glyph. Looking at these two, looks like mangal has largely 
> distorted unicode specification It gives glyph of 'kra' instead of 'ka'. SO if 
> a keyboard map conforms to unicode, it is likely that fonts like mangal will 
> produce garbage..
> 
> > Also, good quality "Free" (as in Free Speech)Open Type tables editing
> > tools are not available, and so, you may have to use M$ tools to do the
> > job :-(
> 
> I am really waiting for open type fonts. But ttfs are good enough to work with 
> IMO. for the time being that is..
> 
> Bye
>  Shridhar
> 
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