Lorna Evans wrote, about trying to get at the license information in the Nikosh
Bengali font -
...it quits at this point.
FWIW, it appears (I'm not entirely sure, but someone may be able to confirm)
there's something wonky/corrupt in the Nikosh font,
see
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 01:58:14PM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
I'd expect it to be looking at the fsType field in the OS/2 table:
I have found by otfinfo that
http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/bpdb/images/fonthelp/Nikosh.zip
has
fsType = 0x0100 (No subsetting).
I'm yet to check the code, but what
On 2014-09-03 17:44, Jonathan Kew wrote:
Sounds like it'd be worth filing a bug report on this, as it certainly
looks like incorrect behavior. Perhaps Jiang or Khaled would have time
to track down exactly what's happening here.
Thanks, I've done this (Khaled of course already knows about the
On to the next problem. We're typesetting a Bangla grammar, and the
chosen font for the Bengali script is the Nikosh font. This ttf font
was reportedly developed by the government of Bangladesh, and is freely
downloadable from their website, e.g.
of this License.
Original Message
Subject: [XeTeX] font license
From: maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org
Date: 9/3/2014 2:31 PM
On to the next problem. We're typesetting a Bangla grammar, and the
chosen font
On 2014-09-03 15:42, Lorna Evans wrote:
The font properties say Installable embedding allowed so I'm not
sure why it won't embed.
The license field has a bunch of CJK that I can't read and then this:
Nikosh font developed by The Election Commission of Bangladesh. Latin
glyphs
...
That's
It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties
Extension installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and
select Properties and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info that
were not available without the extension. I don't know how you would find
this
2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans lorna_ev...@sil.org:
It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties Extension
installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and select
Properties and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info that were
not
2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans lorna_ev...@sil.org:
It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties
Extension
installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and
select
Properties and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info
that were
not
On 2014-09-03 17:04, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans lorna_ev...@sil.org:
...I don't know how you would find this
info on other Operating Systems.
Maybe fontforge?
I have it open in FontForge now. I would think the appropriate place to
look would be the Element
On 2014-09-03 17:25, Stefan Solbrig wrote:
2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans lorna_ev...@sil.org:
It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties
Extension
installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and
select
Properties and it gives me a whole
Why would xdvipdfmx think the Nikosh font is not embeddable, when it's
ok with the Scheherazade? Is it looking at some other field? I don't
think it's reading the entire license agreement :-).
Indeed. :)
I'd expect it to be looking at the fsType field in the OS/2 table:
I'd expect it to be looking at the fsType field in the OS/2 table:
I have found by otfinfo that
http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/bpdb/images/fonthelp/Nikosh.zip
has
fsType = 0x0100 (No subsetting).
Best,
Akira
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