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What is the difference between TrueType fonts and Type-1 fonts?
Started by Finch on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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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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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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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:30:56 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org
Taking this thread to -doc (slightly editted your quote of my -private
email). People in debian-doc, the comment is related to an online publishing
system (Lulu...
Started by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
As for dvi-to-pdf OS/2 computer the fonts
are replaced with some generic Multiple Master Font which sometimes
looks what is in the
phototypesetter an it is....
It awaits "real
programming work".
Not support truetype or opentype, no.
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:51:08 +0000, Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk
"Antique-looking" wan't bad ("Antiquated" is old and useless,
"antique" is old and valuable). I was thinking "classical", but
in Japan that means pre-1185, so yes, "Meiji-era" (...
Started by Justin B Rye on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
TrueType Mincho font based on Meiji-era designs
or move the historical details to the long description and say:
antique-looking Japanese TrueType Mincho font
(there's no need for initial Mincho font
Meiji....
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:44:45 +0200, "Roman Schreiber" <romanschreiber@gmx.at
Hallo,
ich suche einen speziellen Courier TrueType-Font, und zwar so einen, der
aussieht, als wrde man mit einer alten, mechanischen Schreibmaschine
schreiben (unterschiedliche...
Started by Roman Schreiber on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Eine der ersten Hits war das:
http://de.fontriver.com/font/old_typewriter/ oder
http-Posting von ihm: Das ist
international verbreitet....
Schreiber schrieb:
Ich hab auf die Schnelle als Google-Suchbegriff "Schreibmaschine font"
eingegeben.
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