On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:07:19PM +0000, Maurício wrote: > > > > I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. > > > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > also really cool are > http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/ > > > > I now understand I can: > > * Use fontforge ascii file or unified font object to > describe glyphs using a text file;
FontForge can read and write unified font object (UFO) files too. > * Use some other tool to create an image for a glyph > and then use a tracer to make it into an ouline > description for a glyph; > > * Use fontforge to add OpenType specific tunning. > > Using those options, can I do everything I want with > fonts? Like japanese kanji, or arabic text where the > shape of a glyph depends on next and previous ones? You can do virtually every thing, I use FontForge mainly for Arabic fonts. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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