Henry,
Yes, I do know the font is a clone of ITC Benguiat, and I
even know that the original company is not in business any more!
Actually, I am a beta-tester for High Logic's FontCreator
program (windows) - which is a top-of-the-line font editor.
I have added several characters to the font and, and created
bold-italic and italic versions. So I have what it takes to
fix it as long as I know what to do.
I made a post in the FontCreator forum, so hopefully I will
find a solution:
http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5475&p=24636#p24636
So, I won't burden you all with this any more since it isn't
a gregorio issue.
But I do want to thank all of you who have taken an interest
and have helped me along here (Elie, Henry, Sister, Brother
Samuel)
God bless!
- Brother Gabriel-Marie
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On 3/12/2015 9:36 AM, Henry So Jr. wrote:
If you look at the opening post of the the thread, the font Brother
Gabriel-Marie is having a problem with is not any of the gregorio fonts.
The font giving trouble is apparently a font called "Mirage" with is a
"font forgery" of ITC Benguiat made by MicroLogic Software.
Unfortunately, MicroLogic is no more, so there is little chance of them
fixing their font.
Brother, if you really like this font, perhaps the genuine ITC Benguiat
(which is of course not free) would not have this hinting problem.
Henry
On Thursday, 12 March 2015 at 08:54:09 am +0100, Élie Roux wrote:
Le 12/03/2015 02:05, Brother Gabriel-Marie a écrit :
Well, I upgraded to 2.4.2 and I still have the hieroglyph issue.
But it is particular:
If I create a pdf using Gregorio and Lualatex, I have no problem
printing that pdf.
But if I PLACE that pdf in an InDesign File and print to an Adobe pdf
printer OR I export to pdf ---> THEN I get the hieroglyphs.
AND it is true that I don't have that problem with another font.
If I use "print as graphic" on the printer settings, then I don't have
the issue.
I agree that it looks like an issue with the font hinting.
I have High-Logic FontCreator, so I can edit the font - how would I fix
the font?
The best way to deal with the problem definitely is the following:
- first, make sure you can use Fontforge: not the easiest part here if
you're under windows. But if you really want to help in Gregorio
development, it might be worth installing Ubuntu in a VirtualBox image
- then try to find a way through fontforge to fix the hinting (or
delete it completely) in greciliae.ttf
- once you know the command to fix it in Fontforge, tell the list, or,
if you have time, try to understand the font building process, which is
fonts/squarize.py, a python script using fontforge
Thank you,
--
Elie
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