Re: ttf font conversion

[Efraim Yawitz]

Do you mean fixing the t1a files before compiling them to .pfa or .pfb?
This sounds just as hard as making many LCM files.

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 21:58:06 -0800, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> 
> > After some initial success in converting Hebrew TTF fonts to Type1,
> > I now find that many fonts have unusual encodings, and it is a pain
> > to manually make a new LCM file for each font or family.  Does
> > anyone know an easier way?
> 
> Fix the fonts.  Adobe has standard for naming glyphs in postscript fonts.
> <http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/unicodegn.html>
> 
> E.g.
> 
>     Unicode     Glyph name
>     05BE          afii57645    HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF
>     05C3          afii57658    HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ
>     05D0          afii57664    HEBREW LETTER ALEF
>     05D1          afii57665    HEBREW LETTER BET
>     [...]
> 
> LCMs should target these glyph naming scheme, than any conforming font
> is immediately usable.
> 
> SY, Uwe
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