Re: hinting lost on generating ttf

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 00:50, George Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 23:49, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > My mistake. It's only when opening an otf and then generating a ttf
> > without changing it that all the hints are lost. To that end, even
> > bitstream vera as an otf will lose all its hints on generating a ttf font
> > from it. I can tell that by simply loading the newly generated ttf, as
> > every entry is highlighted as needing hints. I've attached a bzip2
> > compressed vera.otf (30kb) which has all its hints still intact to make
> > testing easy.
>
> Oh, yes, of course that happens.
> TrueType uses one mechanism for hinting a font, PostScript (otf)
> another. The hinting formats are so different that they can't be
> converted.

Oh bummer. What about hinting in opentype format truetype? Is that different 
from plain otf?

>
> FontForge's ability to generate truetype instructions is pretty bad, so
> it won't do this automagically on conversion.
>
> If you want to use FF's auto-instruction capability:
>       Start out with a PostScript font
>       Element->Font Info->General->Quadratic
>         [OK]
>       Select All
>       Hints->AutoInstr
>
> Going the other direction
>       Start out with a quadratic font
>       Element->Font Info->General->Quadratic (uncheck)
>         [OK]
>       Select All
>       Hints->AutoHint

Hmm I tried endlessly and still I can't seem to generate a ttf font of any 
sort in Cubic with any hinting saved. Is that expected?

Thanks!
Con


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