Youssef, I've been trying to write something on the topics, but so far nothing much accomplish. Maybe if we can get to work started, I can guide you with the specific problem areas that you are having.
As much as I would like to work on Linux, it is not easy to do it (developing fonts). Most tools are available under Windows. The most important tools to develop "intelligent" fonts is VOLT, so you might want to register to the group (it's free). But VOLT does not help you in creating the font itself. You need to use other software like Font Creator or Fontlab. Fontforge would be fine also, but difficult to get it run under windows. If you think it would be better to have a dedicated portal/discussion group on this, please let me know. Regarding the BASE table,you are right. My font does not support the BASE table. This is because my original font does not even have latin font in it. This is something that I need to look into. Regards. On 3/12/07, Youssef Chahibi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 12 March 2007 01:20, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Salam, وعليكم السلام Regardless of Summer Of Code, I wonder if you can assist us this summer incha'allah to learn a bit of Font design, I would really like enjoy improving our fonts (adding support of more languages, fixing diacritics, making use of OpenType...), I am sure others like Khaled Hosny may like some training in this field. About your last two very nice fonts, I think they have some bugs with GTK programs because it doesn't support OpenType BASE tables. But it works perfectly on OpenOffice.org. There is some will to improve OpenType on Pango and QT with HarfBuzz (حرف باز) http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fHarfBuzz . _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
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