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by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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?...
by jamadagni
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 ...
by jamadagni
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 ...
by jamadagni
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.
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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 ...
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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...
by jamadagni
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....
by jamadagni
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 ...