On 8/4/06, Bertrand Delacretaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...I'll discuss the plan
with my project's stakeholders and hopefully get the green light to
invest time in this...
Good news, I got the green light and will be working on these OpenType
improvements in the next few weeks.
I'll use the
On 8/3/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...Sorry, I haven't been clear. Adam obviously grabbed a class [1] from
Victor's FOray, adapted it to FOP and put a different license header on
top. So, it's not that simple. As a first point, we'll need a license
grant from Victor for this
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
3) Additional steps for OpenType GSUB table support
The goal is to enable the smart font features of OpenType, automatic
ligatures as mentioned above, language-dependent glyph substitutions
(different shapes if a letter is
On Thursday 03 August 2006 21:04, Simon Pepping wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
snip/
3b) Modify the chars-to-metrics mapping to handle things like
automatic ligatures, where several chars map to a single glyph
Here I think you can profit
On 03.08.2006 15:04:40 Simon Pepping wrote:
snip/
Aren't DejaVu fonts only TrueType fonts?
I think so, but they still have tables for some of the features Bertrand
is investigating to implement.
Have a look at the STIX fonts,
http://www.stixfonts.org/swdev_geninfo.html. I believe they will
Hi, and thanks everybody for your replies.
On 8/2/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...No, I've been able to restore kerning support. If there's still some
commented code I should probably remove it now. Can you give me a
pointer?...
You're right, kerning works for builtin fonts
On 8/3/06, Manuel Mall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 03 August 2006 21:04, Simon Pepping wrote:
... The main problem with all these smart font features is that you
cannot implement them in rendering without also implementing them in
the linebreaking code
...That comment does
On 03.08.2006 17:40:36 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Hi, and thanks everybody for your replies.
On 8/2/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...No, I've been able to restore kerning support. If there's still some
commented code I should probably remove it now. Can you give me a
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:40:36PM +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
At this point, my plan, for a first phase, would be
-Integrate Adam Strzelecki's patch to support extended character sets
cleanly
-Check that OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines are usable as custom
fonts, including
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Doesn't kerning cause the same problem as smart font features (like
automatic ligatures)? It also causes the total width of a group of
character to change when the group is split between two lines.
AFAICT kerning rarely applies to character pairs which may be subject
Salut Bertrand,
good to see you on this list again.
On 02.08.2006 16:33:59 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Hi FOP team,
(sorry about the long message, but there's quite a lot of stuff to explain)
I *might* have a need and budget to improve the support of OpenType
fonts in FOP in the next few
Hoi Jeremias,
I'll reply on the other points tomorrow, but for now:
...AFAIK, OpenType allows different variants of a font in one font file
(ex. normal and bold). We've had requests to support those font files.
Have you found out during your investigations what would be involved in
supporting
Hi Bertrand,
As I've made some work in this area, I can provide a few additional
hints. In fact I'm kind of a bridge between FOray and Fop and am
working on adapting FOrayFont to Fop. Currently I'm not doing much
because I'm busy with some other work on Fop for the Google Summer of
Code, but I
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