Hi, Sorry, my Internet connection died suddenly yesterday and I've been offline until moments ago.
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 17:59:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, yet I've never used Fonty Python, Inkscape, Scribus etc. Wow, FP I can understand :), but Inkscape! You should give it a go! > Please let me know the expected applications that Fonty Python > manages the fonts for, and whether they (will) use fontconfig > /or not. I guess fontconfig is the reason why you choose ~/.fonts, > but I'm not sure. Fontconfig, yes, I am no expert on these subjects. It's enough for me that fontconfig does magical stuff and I can rely on the ~/.fonts directory to provide fonts to other applications. I once came very close to grokking how it worked, but I have a very efficient forgettery :) I can't list all the apps, and that's the point really - I simply wanted a way to manage fonts - have them come and go. I found, by chance, that soft links to font files placed in ~/.fonts would do the trick and Fonty was born. (Well, it took me almost a year to find out that PIL could render bitmaps of fonts from a given file, but that's another story.) So, rather than having thousands of fonts (and anyone with a package manager and too much time will tell you how easy it is to overdose...) installed in the system, with FP one can deal in small 'herds' of fonts. I really hate the mile-long-mouse-pad syndrome when one has to scroll through fonts in a chooser (pick any app) to find one you want. >... kerning ... Thanks for the info about kerning. I am afraid it went directly over my head :) I'm a simple sort. I have gathered from your fine posts and the others in the thread that I must keep the 'metric' files in the same folder as the 'glyph' files - to that end: Given a PFA or PFB file, I will search for an AFM (of the same name) and then fallback to a PFM and then fallback to Nothing. So, when there is a related file, it will be linked along with the font file (pfa/pfb) into ~/.fonts > Do you have any favorite software supporting AFM/PFM > or TrueType kerning? To tell the truth, Type1 is a total mystery to me. I am in the dark on all sides. I have never used anything other than TTF files. I hang my head in shame ;) \d -- Fonty Python and other dev news at: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
