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What is the difference between TrueType fonts and Type-1 fonts?
Started by Finch on
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This way....
TrueType was invented by Microsoft as a way (a) to break Adobe's monopoly on hinted font formats, (b TrueType is a format created by Microsoft in the early 90's essentially to try to take market share was a trade secret.
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I've the coordinates of the letters (e.g. using SVG). How could I generate a TrueType/PostScript font for my computer ?
( edited : changed vectorial to TrueType/PostScript )
Started by Pierre on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The canonical font editing tools ....
It can also import SVG.
Not terriblyYou may look at FontForge the ugly yet powerful font editor.
I generate a TrueType/PostScript font
Programmatically? I've done it with Python and TTX .
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I'm developing a website for someone but they want (insist) that the title be in a non-standard font. (The customer is always right.) I have the TrueType (.ttf) font but how do I bundle this with the website so that it uses it?
I tried putting it in the...
Started by flavour404 on
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Convert your TrueType font('Arial_Rounded_MT_Bold.ttf') format('truetype'); } h1.title { font-family: 'Arial Rounded Bold to the .ttf font There is....
This, but for the moment you would have to use an image or sIFR .
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I am at present dealing with a corrupt TrueType font. Programs available to me tell me there is a problem with the maxp table -- the maxContours member has a value that is too large. Is there a sure-fire way to detect when a maxContours value is too high...
Started by dirkgently on
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What platform are you using? I've been able to hack TrueType files quite pleasantly using the FontTools library for Python:
font= fontTools.ttLib.TTFont("suspect.ttf") font['maxp'].maxContours
ETA re in case a glyph contains more ....
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I'm using (Windows) TrueType fonts on my Ubuntu workstation ( details ), and am mostly happy with how fonts look, both in desktop apps and on the web (using Firefox).
However, on some web pages, like this one , fonts completely suck:
I found the reason...
Started by Jonik on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
And one example script which changes the font to Helvita
// ==UserScript== // @name Google Reader Font in Helvetica and enlarged // @version 1.0 // @creator Joe // @description Changes the font....
The web pages and change the fonts.
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After a thunderstorm ruined my upgrade to 12.04 by rebooting my computer and modem for me during the upgrade, I ended up doing a clean install of 11.10 then upgrading to 12.04.
When I installed Ubuntu Restricted Extras, I forgot to check the box that ...
Started by Colin Keenan on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ubuntuforums):
It and get the chance to click the check box saying I agree to whatever it is so that TrueType was installed..
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Is there a simple library that can parse a True Type font file and give me a list of vectors/points for me to render it myself? I'm talking about something similar to freetype, but for Java.
Started by Paul on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I used Processing for easy/fast graphic rendering, but the code to access font.
So I bet that you, I explored this field.
You can use Batik to parse a TrueType Font and generate an SVG file ( SVGFont ).
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TrueType Font Installation under XFree86 can sometimes seem a bit daunting. I have found the mkfontalias.py script by Roman Sulzhyk to be invaluble.
However, I quickly got tired of typing in the additional commands needed to make the fonts.alias, fonts...
Started by Hayl on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at justlinux):
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You should no longer need to manually install ttmkfdir or XFSTT to use TTF fonts in Slackware current (pre-9.1). Do the following as root...
1) Copy your fonts from your Windows/Fonts directory to /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF
2a) Code: cd /usr/X11/lib/fonts...
Started by HelicalCynic on
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Ttf slackware.
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:54:49 -0700 (PDT), Hendri Adriaens <spotje@gmail.com
Hi,
what is the easiest way to install truetype fonts (eg verdana) in
miktex? I tried the winfonts package (not supported by miktex package
manager) so installed in manually...
Started by Hendri Adriaens on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Miktex did find the fonts in
windows/fonts:
<C:/WINDOWS/Fonts.
The truetype to the texmf-tree.
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