Hey everyone,
I have a client asking about having a licensed font delivered instead as a CID font, as they are running a piece of old software that requires an Identity H Encoded CID font.
Since CID fonts contain 16-bit glyph sets like Unicode, is there any simple way of converted already mastered .otf/.ttf files to a CID font? Or does this need to be done at an earlier stage in the mastering process?
If the latter, is there any way to insure my font that is being generated from Fontlab 5 will be a CID/Identity H Encoded font?
My understanding is that Big-5 and Shift-JIS based encoding for Chinese and Japanese will be CID fonts, but is there any Western/Latin codepages that will create a CID font?
Thanks!
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If you don't need to follow any particular ROS, you just use Identify-0. If you can use Glyphs.app (*), you just need to add the ROS and export as OTF and the rest will be done automatically.
*) I’m the developer of Glyphs.
You probably should ask your client which one they mean :-).
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3084
Because fontforge insists that Adobe-Identity-H is direct map to unicode.
As far as I see, the Identity-H usage in Source CJK is just "I said so" custom packed encoding...
Some people like to think Adobe-Identity-H is Adobe-UCS-UCS2(?)...