>> 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. > >
Thanks for the response. Before I started to code that extra bit, I wanted to be sure that it wasn't possible with existing Batik and that I was not missing on some important switch which could do that. Best Regards -Raman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
