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- From: "herb chong" <herb.chong@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: truetype hidden
- Message-ID: <199223.969.2814@channel1>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 00:13:23 EST
- Reply-To: "herb chong" <herb.chong@channel1.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- G >True type does NOT have bitmaps built in to it. However what it does
- G >for every glyph, is a set of points that make up the outline, and then
- G >of flags, and then a set of code, that is executed by the interpreter
- G >every glyph. (This from the truetype manual in the same directlry.)
- G >case, the code can check the font size and rotation, and flip bits ont
- G >of the grid to make things look better at small point sizes. (actuall
- G >small em sizes, since it is not the point size, it is the absolute siz
- G >respect to the resolution of the device...) In any case, my suspicion
- G >that fontographer is somehow mangling some of the flags, or some of th
- G >code. (is this glyph code equivalent to hinting in other font systems
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- not only that, but Microsoft's TTF files come with many different language
- enodings of the name table and i think Fontographer drops all but the
- Unicode and the ASCII ones. it has to keep Unicode because that's what
- Windows wants, and it has to keep ASCII because other programs look for
- it.
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- Herb...
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