Hi Raman, RKVS Raman <rkvsra...@gmail.com> wrote on 03/05/2010 05:19:30 AM:
> While working with ttf2svg i noted that the utility extract only > those glyph paths which have a character referered by it. Correct. > For languages like those in Indic Scripts (Hindi, Tamil) etc, the font > file contains lot of more glyphs which do not directly refer to any > character but are ligatures. > > How could we extract them using Batik? I did some looking at how Indic scripts are implemented using TrueType and the complexity goes way beyond simple ligatures. I don't think SVG fonts supports the needed complexity (multiple layers of many to many GSUB tables). Anyway, I think you will have to write some custom code to extract your glyphs. If it looks like it's generally applicable it would be nice if you could contribute back but it's not immediately obvious that it would be generalizable.