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- Tue May 29, 2012 3:52 am
- Forum: Implemented Feature Requests
- Topic: Shortcuts for buttons in Drawing toolbox
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9945
Shortcuts for buttons in Drawing toolbox
All good raster/vector drawing programs like Inkscape/GIMP etc provide single-key keyboard shortcuts for the tools from the Drawing toolbox. This would speedup operations very much. Using a mouse (or touchpad, whatever) should be only when it is unavoidable. Adding such keyboard shortcuts makes life...
- Tue May 29, 2012 3:48 am
- Forum: Implemented Feature Requests
- Topic: Skew transform should use angle instead of tangents
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5476
Skew transform should use angle instead of tangents
Currently skew transform uses tangent values. I learnt this only from http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=15521#p15521. Neither the user interface nor the documentation explains this. (Sorry if I missed out seeing anything.) Angles are more naturally understandable than tangent values. Inksc...
- Fri May 04, 2012 6:31 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Removal of Tables by Default
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6464
Re: Removal of Tables by Default
I noticed that on the Options, Font tab that the following tables are removed by default: LTSH VDMX hdmx, and that by default hdmx is compressed on saving fonts. Obviously the table cannot be compressed if it has been removed. Does Font Creator recreate these tables on saving, or are they obsolete?...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:19 pm
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Adinatha Tamil Brahmi font
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16553
Re: Adinatha Tamil Brahmi font
I'll admit that I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of coverage. I'm seeing nothing mapped for candrabindu or anusvara; no independent or vowel sign L/R/LL/RR; no Kha/Ga/Gha, Cha/Jha, Ttha/Dda/Ddha, Tha/Da, Pha/Ba/Bha, and no numbers. I would have thought that the first functional Brahmi font (to ...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:17 pm
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Adinatha Tamil Brahmi font
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16553
Adinatha Tamil Brahmi font
Hello. We (I and two friends) are proud to present probably the first publicly available open-licenced font for Brahmi, Adinatha. Brahmi is judged to be the progenitor of over 200 daughter and grand-daughter scripts in India and South East Asia. A "dialect" of Brahmi was used to write old ...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:17 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Scaling a glyph while maintaining stroke width
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5389
Re: Scaling a glyph while maintaining stroke width
Thanks Bhikkhu. I found out that it is not straightforward that the thinning factor should be x*(scale-1). As you said we have to experiment and find out. And I have already seen your tutorial, thank you.
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:06 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Scaling a glyph while maintaining stroke width
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5389
Scaling a glyph while maintaining stroke width
Hello. While hacking on some existing open-source fonts, I've been required to resize some glyphs which were off-size for ths style. But if I scale them then the stroke width also increases which is unacceptable. Manual adjustment of the nodes is not an option in complex Indic glyphs. So I was wonde...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:58 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
- Topic: Why are intersecting coordinates bad?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5760
Why are intersecting coordinates bad?
I just ran the Validator over my font and it highlighted lots of minor nitty gritties as well as some major ones. One thing I am curious about is, why are intersecting coordinates bad? Googling produced this page where someone else had this question but an answer somehow did not seem to address the ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:02 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6681
Re: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
I have now been successful in resizing all glyphs to the same size. I modified cheshirekow's svg2pdf program (http://www.cheshirekow.com/redmine/projects/svg2pdf/wiki/Wiki) as follows: In the svg2pdf.c file change the line surface = cairo_pdf_surface_create (output_filename, width, height); or in th...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:51 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6681
Re: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
I am saying I don't export to EPS, but use PDF instead. DrawPlus doesn't export to EPS. That's where the screen shot is from. I guess your drawing application will have a page size too. Don't fill the entire page with the glyphs, but export the entire page as an EPS, not just the glyph. Bhikkhu, pl...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:52 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6681
Re: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
The EPS files are different sizes. I have no experience of creating EPS files, but with PDF files they must all use the same paper size, then they will import in the correct proportions. You need a bounding box that is the same for each glyph, whatever its size relative to the other glyphs. Bhikkhu...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Advice on SVG to TTF conversions (already googled)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13295
Re: Advice on SVG to TTF conversions (already googled)
I've quickly looked into the issue, but from what I can see the conversion taken place in fontforge. Nothing we can do about that. If you want to use FontCreator, then all you have to do is convert your SVG files into postscript based image files (.eps .ps .ai or .pdf). Thanks, I've since been usin...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:44 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6681
Re: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
A couple of post-scripts. (no pun intended) 1. While all glyphs are being scaled to the same height, FC is not making them all the same width (thank heavens). So one observes that the width of the glyphs does vary. 2. See NGI and NGII which have ascenders. Also see NGU and NGUU which have descenders...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:42 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6681
Images imported from EPS are scaled differently
My artist friend has created EPS files from a vector-drawing application and I'm importing them into my font. Now the problem is even though the original EPS files are in correct size proportion to each other with varying heights, when I import them into FC, they are all squeezed to the same height....
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:34 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Auto-mapping sequential codepoints to sequential glyphs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5062
Re: Auto-mapping sequential codepoints to sequential glyphs
@Bhikkhu, thanks for that tip about Insert Chars -- i'm obviously still getting used to FC. @Van, I know about Unibook but I have never used it because almost always I need to insert characters amidst my descriptive text as well for discussing them. And once you create a table in Word, you can just ...