Type 1 specification: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/T1_SPEC.PDF
also see: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/ftechnotes.jsp Postscript Specification: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/PLRM.pdf The best way to find more is to do a search from the adobe.com site rather than google. I don't know exactly what you're trying to do but it seems to me that the best thing, as you say, is to create a font with arabic presentation glyphs only. Forget about any latin characters. Make sure that CUPS is taking all UTF 0xFExx characters and then mapping them into the range 1 - 255. Perhaps an algorithm such as charcode = 0xFExx - 0xFE6F or something like that. Then create the font based on a standard Latin encoding, e.g. char 0x41 = 'A'. Then put glyph (0xFE70 + 0x41) = (isolated HAH?) into the 'A' position. You need to get hold of the standard adobe encoding, so you know where to put each glyph, I think. If not, you will need to provide your own encoding which is best avoided, I believe. However, bearing in mind that you're using a conversion tool, the position of each glyph is not entirely in your control I suppose. This is all assuming lots of things that I've probably got wrong but maybe it will provide a few hints. wassalaam On Wednesday 05 May 2004 23:23, ahmad khalifa wrote: > >From: abdulhaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >All the postscript manuals (including a detailed description of what a > > type 1 > >font file is) can be downloaded as pdf files from the Adobe site, and they > >are very good, but take a day to digest. > > thanks for the explanation, can you provide a url to those docs ? i googled > for > type 1 fonts, but didnt get any usefull explanation like yours and > roozbeh's > > about the presentation form glyphs, i think in CUPS it would be easier to > just > put them in a separate font. > > > ak. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
