Re: font tools (was creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.)

From: Gary P. Grosso (ggrosso@arbortext.com)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 08:53:12 EST

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    Thanks for the pointer about BabelMap, James. (I already had
    BabelPad.)

    All I can see for this font in BabelMap are the diacritics atop
    certain characters, or the very tops of other characters. I suspect
    this is another sign there is something wrong with the font. In
    BabelPad, the blinking cursor is about 3 times as tall as the
    characters in the font.

    Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to make the font available to others
    for comment. I will report this new symptom to the group responsible
    for creating the font.

    Gary

    At 07:33 PM 11/20/2003 +0000, jameskass@att.net wrote:
    >.
    >Gary P. Grosso wrote,
    >
    >
    >> On Win2K, "Character Map" (charmap.exe) does not show anything
    >> beyond the BMP. I haven't tried this on XP.
    >
    >Have you tried BabelMap or BabelPad? Both can show non-BMP...
    >
    >http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357
    >
    >Best regards,
    >
    >James Kass
    >.
    >> Since we're comparing notes on font tools, I recently was
    >> asked to look over an experimental font which had, among
    >> other things, characters in the Supplemental Multilingual
    >> Plane and used CFF format. (I had to look up what CFF
    >> format even was.)
    >>
    >> PFAEdit was able to load the font. At least I could see the
    >> SMP characters; I didn't attempt any editing, kerning, etc.
    >> I've always been fairly impressed with PFAEdit, which probably
    >> deserves a name which reflects the fact that it goes well
    >> beyond PFA files or even Type 1 fonts. In fact, I'd like
    >> to see it ported to Windows.
    >>
    >> Font Creator Program couldn't load the font due to the CFF
    >> format, which was disappointing, because I like FCP's
    >> interface and other features, and was hoping to get an up
    >> close and personal look at some of the glyphs, which seemed
    >> to have some sort of height anomaly.
    >>
    >> On Win2K, "Character Map" (charmap.exe) does not show anything
    >> beyond the BMP. I haven't tried this on XP.
    >>
    >> Gary
    >>
    >> At 09:00 AM 11/20/2003 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
    >> >I haven't tested this myself, but from a look at the source code, it appears
    >> that pfaedit (pfaedit.sourceforge.net) can generate format12 TTFs. (Open
    >> Source, for UNIX).
    >> >
    >> >~mark
    >> >
    >> >On 11/20/03 03:12, Arcane Jill wrote:
    >> >
    >> >>
    >> >>Is anyone able to answer this? I for one would really like to know.
    >> >>Thanks
    >> >>
    >> >>
    >> >>> -----Original Message-----
    >> >>> From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang [mailto:ytang0648@aol.com]
    >> >>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:29 AM
    >> >>> To: John Jenkins
    >> >>> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    >> >>> Subject: Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.
    >> >>
    >> >>
    >> >>> Does FontLab support generating TTF in format12 (32 bits)?
    >> >>> Which "cheaper solutions" could generating TTF in format12 (32 bits)?
    >>
    >>
    >> ---
    >> Gary Grosso
    >> Arbortext, Inc.
    >> Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    >>
    >> 

    ---
Gary Grosso
Arbortext, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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