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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] announcement/RFC: new fonts
From: |
Sayamindu Dasgupta |
Subject: |
Re: [Freebangfont-devel] announcement/RFC: new fonts |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:58:56 +0530 |
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:03 -0500, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> I recently (re)discovered some nice features of fontforge (formerly
> pfaedit) which significantly reduces the development time required to
> create new fonts (at least compared to the way I used to do it).
> Basically this consists of using the 'Expand Stroke' feature in
> fontforge, which has a variety of options leading to different styles
> from the same basic outline.
>
Details !!
Details !!
:)
> Anyway, using this approach, I have managed to create a couple of new
> fonts from scratch in about 5 days (starting from the template, of
> course, which takes care of the opentype lookups). The main work, i.e.
> creating the basic glyph shapes, took 3 days, and the rest was mainly
> figuring out suitable parameters (and occasionally booting up Windows
> to see if it liked the results).
Looks good !!
>
> I have put up the results at
>
> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Jamrul/JamrulNormal.ttf
> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Hortuki/HortukiNormal.ttf
>
> They are far from perfect, but good enough as a first draft. I would
> appreciate any testing and feedback.
>
Did some testing with the latest version of Pango (fresh from CVS) - rendering
of juktolist.txt looks good.
-sdg-