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- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!wolff
- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager, WFNBoss, Corel Draw
- Message-ID: <OM39NTM@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1992Dec18.125202.13638@ircam.fr>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:11:16 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
-
- >1. Is there a normal scheme for adjusting the UniqueID, or can I rely that
- > simply typing over the file size (which is fairly unique) over the
- > ID number will work in all cases.
-
- >2. Can I combine multiple fonts of the same family into a single file?
- > I'd like to, for instance, have the four Frutiger forms
- > (Norm,Bold,Ital,BoldItal) come up under a single name so I don't
- > have incredibly long font-selection lists. Right now, I have each
- > under a different name for selection.
-
- I wrote a program to adjust all the many problems with fonts converted
- from WFN fonts. It works on decrypted .pfb files (using another PD
- package). It changes the UniqueID, renames some wrongly-named characters
- and generates some missing characters from outlines of similar ones.
- Then it compresses the font program by finding out common subpaths and
- placing them into subroutines. (This is a good idea for many other PD
- fonts as well, they get reduced in size by ca. 20% without loss of
- information.)
- I hope to find some time in January (maybe February) to put the code
- together into a form suitable for posting it here.
- My posting will also contain .pfm file generation from .afm files.
- CorelDraw's generated .pfm files are so buggy that they should best be
- thrown away immediately.
-