Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-19 Thread Felix E. Klee
Thanks for all suggestions! I have now created a font: http://openfontlibrary.org/files/feklee/331 However, I had issues with encoding. I created a TrueType font with all Unicode BMP characters, except U+FFFD, U+FFFE, U+ (to get below the sfnt size limitation). This worked, but I could not

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 November 2010 17:39, Felix E. Klee felix.k...@inka.de wrote: Thanks for all suggestions! I have now created a font: How did you do it? :0

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-19 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: How did you do it? :0 Created a Glyph and imported it into FontForge, as default character. See FONTLOG.txt for details. Then - as suggested by Khaled - I hit Ctrl+G on that character and copied the reference to all the other

[OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Felix E. Klee
I am looking for a font that I can use for hiding passwords in text documents, in particular with the EMACS text editor. And, yes, the passwords should be copyable! The font, naturally, should only consist of identical characters. Seems like the Open Font Library has nothing to offer in that

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:00:47PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: I am looking for a font that I can use for hiding passwords in text documents, in particular with the EMACS text editor. And, yes, the passwords should be copyable! The font, naturally, should only consist of identical

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: It should be easy to create your own font, fire up FontForge, Have never used, but if it's simple to install and use, and if I find the time, why not? Ctrl+V. Do I have to do that for every individual character? There

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Baker
If you know a little Python you can write a short script that will do it for you. Peter On Monday, November 15, 2010, Felix E. Klee felix.k...@inka.de wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: It should be easy to create your own font, fire up FontForge,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:01:14PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: It should be easy to create your own font, fire up FontForge, Have never used, but if it's simple to install and use, and if I find the time, why not?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 15:01 +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: It should be easy to create your own font, fire up FontForge, [...] Do I have to do that for every individual character? There are *many* Unicode characters...

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font for hiding passwords

2010-11-15 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: You could also make it a fixed-width font and have an unknown glyph glyph, perhaps. Note that not all programs will render a space glyph, but will just consider it as a motion. Interesting. Indeed I thought that a font