I think I did something wrong in fontforge because I am new to using fontforge.
The font is correct because I downloaded it (denemo.ttf) and it works except for E3C6 which I tried to add. Do you know the steps to add a new glyph in the unused unicode range and make it display in gtk? Thanks, -Ferdinand --- On Fri, 8/12/11, suzuki toshiya <[email protected]> wrote: > From: suzuki toshiya <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ft] Unable to add glyph to unassigned unicode value > To: "Ferdinand Ramirez" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 12, 2011, 7:07 PM > Excuse me, do you think as you did > anything wrong in > fontforge and ask for the solution, or, do you think > your font is correct but freetype show some bad behaviour? > If latter, please upload your font somewhere and post > the URL... > > Regards, > mpsuzuki > > Ferdinand Ramirez wrote: > > I have problems displaying a glyph that I added to an > existing font. Here are the steps I followed. > > > > - I downloaded a font and used gtk markup language in > my source code to load the font and display the value for > 'J' on a gtk label and it worked fine. > > > > - To make sure that I made no errors, I loaded this > font in fontforge, double clicked on the glyph image for 'J' > to open the glyph in edit mode, did a Select All and copied > the glyph. I then edited the glyph for U+E3C6 and pasted the > glyph and saved it. > > > > - I then ran my program and did an sprintf of "\uE3C6" > into a buffer and tried to display this buffer on the gtk > label using the gtk markup language (this is how I displayed > for 'J' as well). This time, instead of displaying the > glyph, it just displayed the letters E3 on the top row and > the letters C6 on the bottom row with a small square border > around the letters. > > > > What steps am I missing? I am new to fontforge and any > help will be appreciated. My aim should be pretty simple for > people here - I want to use an unused unicode value and > display my glyph from my program. Ideally, I will want to > display it on gtk widgets using gtk markup language after > loading the font at runtime, but if you have answers for > other means of displaying such glyphs, I am eager to know > those as well. > > > > I should add that I did get an error when I did a > generate font which said that I'm saving the font in a > 1-byte encoding format and will not be able to see more than > 256 values. I am not sure how to overcome this error in case > this was the reason for my inability to display my font. > > > > Thanks, > > -Ferdinand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freetype mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype > > _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
