On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 00:42, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
All of this looks very promising. I think the final decision on the
table format can only be done after converting a bunch of BDFs forth
and back.
Ok. I have a version of fontforge which puts bdf properties into a
'BDF ' table in an sfnt, and
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:16, David Turner wrote:
- I don't understand completely the difference between atoms and
non-property
strings. Aren't these the same things ? Why distinguish them then ?
Well 5005.BDF_Spec.pdf says that the thing that comes after the FONT
keyword should be a
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:16, David Turner wrote:
PS: By the way, your .otb file doesn't display correctly in ftview,
I'll try
to investigate this later...
I believe this is because the three strikes I used to build the otb file
have different character sets -- none of which is complete.
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 10:29, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
You will find what I believe is the most up-to-date version of
fonttosfnt in the X.Org CVS tree. There's also a version in XFree86,
but I'm not sure it has been kept up to date.
I downloaded fonttosfnt from x.org's cvs repository.
I build
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 17:55, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
To get patches into code in X.Org's CVS, please file bug reports at:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
and then use the Create Attachment link in the resulting bug report to
attach the patch to it.
Thank you.
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 10:50, Keith Packard wrote:
should do the trick. It's reasonably functional, the plan was to use it
to eliminate BDF/PCF fonts from the X distribution and ship only TTF
files. That's been stalled for a couple of years as we need to preserve
all of the mystic BDF
I've finally released a build of fontforge containing the code for the
'BDF ' sfnt-table.
I'm attaching two (fontforge) scripts that can be used to convert a
bunch of bdf/pcf files into an otb and back to bdf files.
$ fontforge -script bdf2sfnt.pe outputfile.otb strike1.bdf [strike2.bdf ...]
$
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:46, Keith Packard wrote:
Yes, this was my plan. I got side-tracked before I managed to implement
it though.
I need this + a utility to regenerate BDF files from the TTF so I can
validate a lossless round-trip for the existing BDF files.
If anyone wants to pick up
