To generate some nicer aa fonts for Plucker (and PalmBible+), I need to be
able to make PalmFontConv use TrueType hinting data. Anyway, for patent
reasons, the version of the FreeType 2 lib that I use has TT hinting
instructions disabled. Unless Apple writes back to me about licensing the
patents for PalmFontConv (unlikely), the one solution I can think of is
this:
I would like a command-line program that generates bitmaps with the
Windows font renderer and saves them to a text-readable file. It can be
very basic: Take a font name as argv[1] (ideally, a font filename), a font
size as argv[2], and (unless you can't toggle this by software) and
argv[3] will specify whether to do anti-aliasing, and then spit out glyphs
U0 to U255 to stdout in an easy-to-process text format (e.g., representing
the gray-scale level of each pixel by a hex number from 0 to F), and also
dumping basic metrics (advance width, left kerning, ascender/descender
height). I just don't know enough about Windows programming to know how
to select a font, draw a glyph (to screen or to an internal
buffer--whichever is easier) and then capture the pixels. And I don't
want to learn Windows programming. It would be a pretty trivial program
to write if I were writing it for a Palm or a Sharp Wizard or... Nothing
fancy. I wouldn't be surprised if this was just 20-30 lines of code. I
can tweak the code myself as needed to specify encodings, etc.
While this would only run on Windows, the font bitmaps generated by it
could be used by everybody.
Alex
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Philosophy Department || online papers and home page:
Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85
Washington, DC 20057 ||
U.S.A. ||
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