Do you know if anything like this exists? HowĬan someone view True Type Fonts on a unix based system? Thanksįor any information you might be able to provide! I only work on unix systems, and I was wondering if there isĪny way to take a TTF file and get a gif for each character (There's a list of which fonts come with which Microsoft products at their typography site.) However, Microsoft are discontinuing this (Monotype) font since it's a rip-off of Linotype's Palatino - which itself is to be the first OpenType font.
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Otherwise can anyone tell how and where to download and install I would dearly love to have on my list, i believe it looks great. Then i don't seem to have it show up in my list of fonts in say I have heard that the font above is one of microsoft, how come An italic string ending in "f." is a case in point: the top of the 'f' could easily overlap the extent of the period. Note that looking at just the first and last characters is not sufficient. In Windows, you can obtain "ABC metrics" which will tell you the extent of the black. You really need to look at the bounding box of each character in the string, in absolute terms, and take the min and max of them all. Works much of the time, but sometimes results in too smallĪ bitmap, especially with italic fonts and strings ending in bitmap width) for a string based on the horizontal metrics of each glyph. What's the best way to determine a minium boundingīox width (i.e. I'm using the freetype engine to add TrueType support toĪ package. But the FreeType people have written a complete C library that interprets the instructions - I don't think yours is needed. It may be enough for your uses though, and is not a huge task. This would lead to poor quality images at small sizes, often illegible.
One approach would be to ignore the hinting instructions altogether. Project? Do i have to interpret these TTF instruction in orderĬan you recommend any complete resource/book for this matter?Īnd as a favor, can i have a copy of your resources used in here? The things that must first be understood in dealing with this Clear? - LaurenceĪm planning to write a TTF library for Turbo C, and will onlyīe supporting a basic functions (displaying a TTF font with
You need to use the new 32-bit function, GetGlyphOutlineA which retrieves outlines by a 16-bit char or glyph index. The normal 16-bit GetGlyphOutline function only works for the first 256 characters, i.e. I am trying to handle fonts like chinese japanese hebrew etc.Īny help or ideas would be greatly appreciated The function returns -1 for values above. But I dont seem to be able to get any information beyond the first 255 chars. I am trying to extract the outline from tru type fonts. The question and answer functionality is currently taking a rest.
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