Excuse me, this list is freetype, not fontforge. If you want to ask how to use fontforge, subscribing fontforge is better, I think.
Regards, mpsuzuki Ferdinand Ramirez wrote: > 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
