Best Of
-
Re: Improved Selectric Composer Catalog Available
In case anyone is interested, I wrote an article about my experience digitizing some IBM Selectric Composer fonts: Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (and especially about the math involved…)10 -
Re: v1 Indic shapers
They have supported complex scripts, including Indic and right to left, for a while I think. For example, I did a test in Tibetan recently, and it seemed fine, from what I could tell - in fact I'd sa…3 -
Re: Affinity 2.0
Affinity Publisher along with the rest of the suite has a ways to go, yes! It is an exciting program. I have had some total bombs, but a few hail Mary's as well have worked out. exporting to pdf can …2 -
Re: Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
Try this: from defcon import Font, Glyph import re import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Convert a FNT file to UFO.') parser.add_argument('input', metavar='FNT', help='FNT fil…5 -
Re: u+00af and u+02c9
Yes, this is from the code chart PDF: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf1 -
Re: Tiny bump artifacts where contours overlap
I rebuild the glyph with four different components that have properly connected paths to avoid the overlaps.4 -
Re: Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
I’m guessing that the numbers could be plotted with Drawbot, and that could give you bezier lines in UFO format that could either be opened in a font editor or further manipulated in Drawbot. Obvious…2 -
Re: USB microscope recommendations for books
I gambled about $40 on a Plugable brand USB microscope, and flush against the page it’s good enough to capture ten point or so. It comes with a rudimentary gooseneck stand, so inches away it can capt…4 -
Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
Hello. Right away, the ask is: Is there a way to convert this to a TrueType font? Not asking for free, but asking. Mark Simonson thought I should try to ask my question here--not sure if this is the …1 -
Re: v1 Indic shapers
We use another script to check the status:if (app.textPreferences.shapeIndicAndLatinWithHarbuzz == true) {<br> alert("Harfbuzz is currently ENABLED");<br>}<br> else {<b…1
