[Devel - Fonts] Re: [ft] gbdfed 1.1 released
Werner LEMBERG wrote: 2. Made support for HBF optional for licensing reasons. This isn't necessary, I think. About a year ago I've contacted Ross Paterson, the author of the HBF library, and he has changed the license to the three-clause BSD one since he no longer maintains that code. I've attached the approved versions. Thanks, Werner. I'll add it back in for version 1.2. -- Mark Leisher Computing Research Lab They never open their mouths New Mexico State University without subtracting from the Box 30001, MSC 3CRL sum of human knowledge. Las Cruces, NM 88003 -- Thomas Bracket Reed (1839-1902) ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] gbdfed 1.0 beta patch 1
As usual, I fixed something without testing it just before releasing the beta sources. The patch is small. http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/gbdfed-1.0-beta-patch1 Mark Leisher ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] gbdfed 1.0 BDF font editor beta available
The sources for the successor to http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html are now available to play with. There is a link at the bottom of the URL, or you can get it directly from http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/gbdfed-1.0-beta.tar.gz. There was no interest expressed in support for grayscale fonts, so I just removed the support for that feature. I'm sure there are still some glaring bugs because I haven't had the chance to test everything thoroughly yet. Please let me know about problems or changes you want to see. Needs pkg-config and gtk+ 2.6 or later (might work with 2.3 or later). Enjoy! Mark Leisher ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font
Being lazy, I'm asking here before actually looking around. Can anyone recommend programs that create [OT]TF fonts from BDF fonts? I have Taro MURAOKA's bdf2ttf (http://www.kaoriya.net/dist/bdf2ttf-2.0.tar.bz2), but seem to recall that someone on one of the Freetype lists might have also written one; I just can't find the relevant message in my email archive. The next generation of the http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html editor, *gbdfed* (not available yet), uses the GTK+ toolkit, so it can be compiled and run on Windows as well as various species of Unix/Linux. I had a request to add the ability to create pixel fonts for use with Flash and web pages. So the plan is to let the user specify a set of strikes to be made into an OTF font. P.S. Now is a good time to get in your requests for any other features to be included in gbdfed. P.P.S. I'm also looking for volunteers to compile and test *gbdfed* on Windows. -- --- Mark Leisher Computing Research LabA sneer is the weapon of the weak. New Mexico State University -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Box 30001, MSC 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003 ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: You will find what I believe is the most up-to-date version of fonttosfnt in the X.Org CVS tree. There's also a version in XFree86, but I'm not sure it has been kept up to date. Precisely the answer I was looking for. Thanks, Juliusz. -- --- Mark Leisher Computing Research LabA sneer is the weapon of the weak. New Mexico State University -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Box 30001, MSC 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003 ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts] convert font
Salvatore Celsomino wrote: there is a system in order to convert a font .bdf or .pcf into font .fon or .ttf. i have tried bdftofon.exe and pcftofon.exe, but for the my font, they have errors: too many characters. That program only allows 256 glyphs. Remove any extra glyphs and try it again. BTW, the sources are available at ftp://ftp.knackered.org/pub/angus/bdftofon.tar.gz -- --- Mark Leisher Computing Research LabA sneer is the weapon of the weak. New Mexico State University -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Box 30001, MSC 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003 ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] otf2bdf 3.0 released
The successor to ttf2bdf is now officially released. Documentation and sources are available at http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/otf2bdf.html. No binaries are available yet. Those of you who downloaded any of the preview versions will be interested to know that the release version has new command line parameter to print out the platform and encoding ID's of the encoding tables available in the font. Example: % otf2bdf -et gfzemenu.ttf Encoding tables available in the font: Platform Encoding --- Default Default (-pid 3 -eid 1) Apple Unicode ISO10646 (-pid 0 -eid 0) Macintosh MacGeez (-pid 1 -eid 28) Microsoft ISO10646 (-pid 3 -eid 1) Enjoy! -- --- Mark Leisher Computing Research LabA sneer is the weapon of the weak. New Mexico State University -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Box 30001, MSC 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003 ___ Fonts mailing list Fonts@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] XmBDFEditor 4.7 released
NOTE: This is the last version of xmbdfed that will be released. Any patches that come in will be applied to the next generation of this editor, which will be called gbdfed. Version 1.0 of gbdfed will be released some time in May or June and will use GTK 2 (with none of the deprecated features) for the GUI. Now is the time to get your requests in for the next generation of this bitmap font editor! Version 4.7 of XmBDFEdit is now available. The sources and binaries are available by browser at: http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/download.html The binaries are compiled with -O4 and stripped. The Linux version is compiled statically so it will run on most modern Linux boxes without all those pesky shared library dependencies. [Sources] http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.7.tar.bz2 [Binaries: Linux (XFree86 4.3.0, Freetype 2.1.4, OpenMotif 2.2.2), Solaris 2.8] http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.7-LINUX.tar.bz2 http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.7-SOLARIS.tar.bz2 XmBDFEditor is a Motif-based BDF font editor with the following features: o Multiple fonts can be loaded from the command line. o Multiple fonts can be open at the same time. o Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts. o Multiple glyph bitmap editors can be open at the same time. o Cutting and pasting between glyph bitmap editors. o Export of XBM files from glyph bitmap editors. o Automatic correction of certain metrics when a font is loaded. o Generation of XLFD font names for fonts without XLFD names. o Update an XLFD font name from the font properties. o Update the font properties from an XLFD font name. o Font property editor. o Font comment editor. o Supports unencoded glyphs (ENCODING of -1). o Display of glyph encodings in octal, decimal, or hex. o Builtin on-line help. o Imports PK/GF fonts. o Imports HBF (Han Bitmap Font) fonts. o Imports Linux console fonts (PSF, CP, and FNT). o Imports Sun console fonts (vfont format). o Imports fonts from the X server. o Imports Windows FON/FNT fonts. o Imports TrueType fonts and collections. o Exports PSF fonts. o Exports HEX fonts. o Edits two and four bits per pixel gray scale fonts. Version 4.6 was released only as a Linux binary. Differences between version 4.5 and 4.7: Fixed - 1. Fixed PSF font importing and exporting. 2. Fixed importing Windows FON/FNT. 3. Other bug fixes (see CHANGES file). Changed --- 1. Changed to Freetype 2. Freetype 1 no longer supported. 2. PSF font exporting now allows you to choose whether to export the font with a Unicode table, the font only, or a Unicode table only. Only PSF2 fonts are exported. Importing PSF fonts does not support composite fonts or attaching a separate Unicode table. Mark Leisher 23 February 2004 -- --- Mark Leisher Computing Research LabThe fury with which untenable beliefs New Mexico State University are defended is inversely proportional Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL to their defensibility. Las Cruces, NM 88003 -- Richard Dawkins ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] XmBDFEd 4.6 Linux binary finally released
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/download.html Apologies for the long delay, but the statically linked Linux 4.5/4.6 binary is finally available. The old version was crashing all the time. The current binary version, 4.6, is 4.5 with the patch applied and statically linked with XFree86 4.3.0 and OpenMotif 2.2.2. Spread the word. -- --- Mark Leisher Computing Research LabThe fury with which untenable beliefs New Mexico State University are defended is inversely proportional Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL to their defensibility. Las Cruces, NM 88003 -- Richard Dawkins ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts]List archives?
Sorry if this has already been said, but I can't seem to dig up anything newer than May of 2000. Any pointers? Am I just missing something simple (I hope)? - Mark Leisher Computing Research LabBut blogging's political bias New Mexico State University is not so much left/right as Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL anti-idiot. Las Cruces, NM 88003 -- Glenn Reynolds ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]Re: How to submit glyph sets for XFree86?
Shaheed Sounds right to me. Once I get it right, I can always stick it on Shaheed a web site in anticipation of the release after 4.2.0. Great! I would love to take a look at it. Shaheed Hmmm. I just looked at Shaheed http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/glyphlist.txt Shaheed and could not see any names for Bengali, i.e. Unicode U+0980 Shaheed though U+09FF. What am I missing? I believe that glyphs with no name in the Adobe Glyph List use uni or unichar, where is the character code in hex. I just can't remember which at the moment. I'm sure someone will verify the correct naming scheme. - Mark Leisher... I get my ideas from reading the news, Computing Research Lab which is probably why my writing has the New Mexico State University intellectual depth of Saran Wrap. Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL -- Michael Swaine Las Cruces, NM 88003 ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]BUG(?): fixed-width fonts with glyphs wider than DWIDTH
Anonymous Also, the xmbdfedit program seems totally clueless about such Anonymous fonts (when it isn't busy crashing or doing other ridiculous Anonymous things). For example, if you load in the above Adobe Courier Anonymous font (which has a DWIDTH of 9) and then immediately save it Anonymous with xmbdfedit then it will have a DWIDTH of 10 and the spacing Anonymous will look like crap if you actually compile it and use it in an Anonymous application, until you manually go through the file and (using Anonymous your editor's replace command) change all the DWIDTH 10s to Anonymous DWIDTH 9s. Clue: turn off Correct Metrics in the Edit-Setup dialog of xmbdfed or use the -nm command line parameter. Adobe's automatic conversion from T1 to BDF way back when left several artifacts. There are two or three glyphs in the 10 point, 100 DPI Adobe Courier BDF font that are actually 10 pixels wide. As for the crashing, the best thing to do is get LessTif (http://www.lesstif.org) and compile it yourself. The current Linux binary is based on a very old kernel and libraries (approx 2.2.10). - Mark Leisher Rights surrendered are not easily Computing Research Lab regained, and a police state is not New Mexico State Universityworth defending. Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL -- Patrick O'Grady Las Cruces, NM 88003 ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
