"James H. Cloos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James> Can Type1 fonts be larger than 256 characters though? I > James> thought they couldn't unless they were CID-keyed, ie Type9 (or > James> whatever the hell Adobe wants to call them). > > Yes, type1 can have large number of glyphs. Only 256 of course are > available in any given encoding, but multiple encodings can be made.
So do you just create a handful of different fonts all in the same series, with 256 chars in each font? Of course, CID keyed fonts just work better for this... But you have to have CMaps that fit, or define your own encodings. I'm almost tempted to look into making a Unicode CIDfont encoding with some CMaps from it to other common charsets. It'd be a lot easier than creating the ones that Adobe did, since the CMaps could all be generated from the Unicode consortium's data. 'james -- James A. Crippen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,-./-. Anchorage, Alaska, Lambda Unlimited: Recursion 'R' Us | |/ | USA, 61.20939N, -149.767W Y = \f.(\x.f(xx)) (\x.f(xx)) | |\ | Earth, Sol System, Y(F) = F(Y(F)) \_,-_/ Milky Way. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
