Yet I'm not sure the target application that Fonty Python
manages the fonts for, but considering the fontconfig's
limitation, I think the first group for FP would be the
font files with Unicode interfaces and outline (not bitmap-
only) fonts. So CFF OpenType would be the first candidate.
Hi,
Sorry, my Internet connection died suddenly yesterday and I've been offline
until moments ago.
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 17:59:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, yet I've never used Fonty Python, Inkscape, Scribus etc.
Wow, FP I can understand :), but Inkscape! You should give it a go!
Thanks for the info. Apology for late reply, I lost my net connection for
almost a day.
PFA files contain exactly the same data as a PFB, they are a hex (ASCII)
dump rather than a binary one.
Okay, but since they both exist as files I must support both.
So AFM files contain useful info not
Hello,
Not sure if this is the right list to ask this on, but I am pretty confused
about Type1 fonts in general and have to start somewhere.
I'm developing a small app called Fonty Python and have made some assumptions
based on the files I found on my Kubuntu system and on (scrappy) web
Hi,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:24:45 +0200
Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Essentially: Is an AFM or a PFM file needed *at all*?
Can I simply focus on PFB and PFA files and link then
into ~/.fonts and call that font 'installed?
In my understanding, AFM and PFM are not essential for
the system that can
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, it is theoretically possible for AFM PFM
to have the metrics which is different from PFA PFB.
I don't know recent utilization is popular.
AFM and PFM files also may contain kerning data which is not
available in .pfa/.pfb files.
--
Dmitry.
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 11:11:00 Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
AFM and PFM files also may contain kerning data which is not
available in .pfa/.pfb files.
Okay so potentially, -1 on the vote. Making AFM and PFM important again.
How important do you thing that extra data is on a modern Gnu/Linux
Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 11:11:00 Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
AFM and PFM files also may contain kerning data which is not
available in .pfa/.pfb files.
Okay so potentially, -1 on the vote. Making AFM and PFM important again.
How important do you thing that
Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I take it you would advise that the corresponding metric files should be
in the same folder as the glyph files?
It depends on how applications handle that.
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Hi,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:11:00 +0800
Dmitry Timoshkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, it is theoretically possible for AFM PFM
to have the metrics which is different from PFA PFB.
I don't know recent utilization is popular.
AFM and PFM files also may contain
FreeType doesn't care about additional data in afm/pfm files, it's
applications and users who care. For instance a decent typesetting
application must require reasonable metrics and kerning data to be
available for professional fonts.
Oh, now that you mention it, I recall that Freetype does
So, I take it you would advise that the corresponding metric files
should be in the same folder as the glyph files?
No, there's no reason for that. It really depends on the application
where it searches the files.
Am I right to assume the links are:
PFB -- PFM
and
PFA -- AFM
No. PFM is
No, the relationship is independent.
If you scan Bitstream's PS Type1 font provided for X11,
you can find the pair of PFB and AFM. Most PS font package
provides PS font and AFM but often lacks PFM.
I gather that there must be some file somewhere that is describing the
relationships between
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 11:51:46 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
No. PFM is a special (binary) format of AFM used on Windows only.
You can completely ignore them. So
PBA,PBF - AFM
Are those new types or typos?
PBA? PBF?
So, to clarify, you advise that:
1. If I find a PFB file without an AFM,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:49:41 +0200
Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am I right to assume the links are:
PFB -- PFM
and
PFA -- AFM
No, the relationship is independent.
If you scan Bitstream's PS Type1 font provided for X11,
you can find the pair of PFB and AFM. Most PS font package
provides PS font
Hi,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:27:38 +0200
Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 11:51:46 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
No. PFM is a special (binary) format of AFM used on Windows only.
You can completely ignore them. So
PBA,PBF - AFM
Are those new types or typos?
PBA? PBF?
Oh,
On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 12:47:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the decision we have to consider for first is:
~/.fonts should include the files missing outline data?
Yeah, that's the thing, although I am fuzzy on the meaning of 'outline' here.
At present, fontconfig
does not search
PBA,PBF - AFM
Are those new types or typos?
Typos, sorry.
[In the following, I assume that you want to get metrics, right?]
So, to clarify, you advise that:
1. If I find a PFB file without an AFM, just use the PFB (i.e. link
into ~/.fonts).
2. If I find a PFB with a partner AFM
What is considered a font, right now, is based entirely on the
extension of the filename. .ttf,.otf,.ttc,.pfb with .pfa
in the works.
On Unix boxes, this is a bad idea. The `classical' way to find out
the contents of a file is to use the `file' program which compares the
(beginning of the)
On Unix boxes, this is a bad idea. The `classical' way to find out
the contents of a file is to use the `file' program
Good point. I suppose file extensions work 'well enough' for me. I think most
designers will have files with extensions already attached, this being a
Windows-world after
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 00:24, Donn wrote:
.PFA files
These are a new twist, just found one today. I do not know if they also get
matched with some metric file. I see many .AFM files around and in one
folder:
PFA files contain exactly the same data as a PFB, they are a hex (ASCII)
dump rather
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:32:29 +0200
Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[In the following, I assume that you want to get metrics, right?]
As a quick summary: Fonty Python is meant to, acting independently of
fontconfig:
1. Let one browse to any folder and see (rendered via PIL) what fonts are in
it.
Hi,
I wish if this Werner's post is appropriate to continue
the discussion of the font format to be supported by
Fonty Python.
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:07:45 +0100 (CET)
Werner LEMBERG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are these worth supporting? I don't think I have one on my entire
Kubuntu system.
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