... browsers making use of fonts without using the OS/2 table (just use the brute force head.Ymax and head.min values to do layout), ... see the download URLs.) It also works with OpenType It also works with OpenType fonts. Maybe I should revert to just ...

Forum topic - sii - 18 Mar 2008 - 10:36am - 180 comments - 0 attachments

... I am trying to understand. When you have to generate an OpenType font (OTF or TTF), is it better to consider the glyph coverage in ... no code). The encoding was supplied by a separate look-up table in the font. When you’re making OpenType or TrueType fonts, the ...

Forum topic - piccic - 8 Nov 2008 - 1:03pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments

... foriegn languages, Linquists’ Software, created an OpenType version for use in Biblical Publishing of a scholarly nature, in ... or a font to ship, have a reference to a complex exception table for look ups? For example, can I designate a CSUB to occur whereby ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 12 Sep 2008 - 4:54am - 303 comments - 0 attachments

... include this when You could include this when using the OpenType feature “size”: ... 9pt due to 8pt have hinted widths. Quark’s tracking table Quark’s tracking table Xtension has been doing this since 1989 ... it is really not a point to make. ”...the OpenType feature “size”...” is static, i.e. one label per font, ...

Forum topic - James Puckett - 1 Sep 2008 - 7:58pm - 69 comments - 0 attachments

I am creating a set of OpenType fonts for professionally typesetting Biblical Hebrew. Unlike ... of the diacritic markings. The actual well-crafted OpenType Biblical Hebrew font determines the placement of the diacritic ... a lot, it can not be incorporated as a rule in an OpenType table in an OpenType Biblical Hebrew font. John, what do you think? ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 2 Aug 2008 - 8:00pm - 169 comments - 0 attachments

... that the kerning was not showing even though ’Use OpenType kerning’ is checked in the Preferences. I thought it must be ... of Agency without kerning? AGENCYR.TTF has no kern table and no OpenType Layout tables, so no kerning. The absence of OTL is a ...

Forum topic - Nick Cooke - 19 Aug 2008 - 5:31pm - 87 comments - 0 attachments

... Of course it is. Everybody knows that Adobe created Opentype so they could kill Type 1 and sell their forged fonts a second time ... if they can’t do what Vllg does. A conditional pricing table engine (I made that term up) does not sound any more complex than the ...

Forum topic - Rahim Taliesin Snow - 17 Nov 2008 - 4:52pm - 135 comments - 0 attachments

... interested in buying Font Folio, Adobe’s complete OpenType library on CD, reading the on-site sales copy might lead you to ... Many smaller foundries didn’t even come to the OT table until generation 2. Generation 2 fonts are better, without a doubt, but ...

Forum topic - mondoB - 27 Nov 2006 - 11:58pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... image placement. Another pair either included or omitted OpenType layout features such as ligatures and small caps. The third pair had ... get a RT for this condition? Could you explain how was Table 2 created from Table 1? I haven’t figured out how you made that ...

Forum topic - Chris Allen - 28 Oct 2008 - 8:27am - 96 comments - 0 attachments

Hi, everyone. Right now I’m writing Opentype programs, and there are two things I don’t get it. 1. The ... people to ask about this, but I know almost nothing about Opentype things. If you know anything about this or any good books to learn ... for vertical setting with ’vmtx’ table. I’ve tried to compile valt feature in FLS like this, ...

Forum topic - Tosche - 24 Oct 2008 - 8:01am - 10 comments - 0 attachments