Re: [Fonts]enquiry about pcf/bdf font support

2002-08-15 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
> "Juliusz" == Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juliusz> I'm still not getting anything close to what you claim: I'll be posting the pfaedit generated ttfs later tonight. George fixed a bug that was making it more difficult than necessary to generate the scripts to automate co

Re: [Fonts]enquiry about pcf/bdf font support

2002-08-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Juliusz> I'm getting slightly worse results here: JC> 1/6th larger was for the comparison of all of the utopia strikes in a JC> single EBDT style font vs the ten 10646-1 pcf.gz files. I'm still not getting anything close to what you claim: wc -c luRS??.pcf : 509624 wc -c luRS??.pcf.gz : 998

Re: [Fonts]xft with mozilla and openoffice ?

2002-08-15 Thread Brian Stell
Zenith Lau wrote: > ... > Does mozilla use Xft currently There is also a work in progres for FreeType2 access via Xft: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126919 X Mozilla currently supports Truetype via direct access to FreeType2: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_tru

Re: [Fonts]enquiry about pcf/bdf font support

2002-08-15 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
> "Juliusz" == Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> The resulting ttf worked fine. Juliusz> Could you tell me whether the hmtx contains a full set of Juliusz> metrics, or only metrics for .notdef? All of the glyphs where listed in the _h_m_t_x.ttx file generated by Just's ttdu

Re: [Fonts]enquiry about pcf/bdf font support

2002-08-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CP> OpenOffice.org will fall flat with this kind of TrueType fonts. No, it won't. They are perfectly good TTF fonts. A rasteriser that is not aware of sbits will simply see them as fonts with only one glyph (.notdef). CP> We assume TTFs to be printable and scalable. So it would be nice CP> to

Re: [Fonts]enquiry about pcf/bdf font support

2002-08-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
JC> I just tried importing each of the utopia bdfs into pfaedit and JC> generating a ttf. The 18pt and 24pt 75dpi bdfs could not be imported JC> w/o overwriting 100dpi versions because they had the same PIXEL_SIZE. JC> I think this is a limitation of pfaedit rather than the ttf/otf format. It'