On Tuesday 29 August 2006 07:15, Con Kolivas wrote:
> 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?
Oh and big quadratic fonts (as all Japanese ones are) with lots of hinting
like MS Mincho lose a lot of their hints when saved again. It seems like
there is some upper limit to the number of hints in fontforge which is broken
by these fonts that already have a lot more hints in them?
Thanks again!
Con
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