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Re: Is there any tool you can use to look at the final ordering the glyphs after shaping Engine has done
I would really love to have a similar step-by-step debugger for DirectWrite, because there are sometimes some unexpected differences between that and other engines. (Crowbar uses Harfbuzz.) I don't k…1 -
Re: Is there any tool you can use to look at the final ordering the glyphs after shaping Engine has done
This may help: http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/crowbar/ Note that reordering is performed by the shaper after the codepoints have been mapped to glyphs (although the shaper internally remembers the initi…4 -
Re: Proofing Kern On results - How do you review thousands of pairs?
One of the reasons I gave up on my experiments with automated kerning is the problem of verification. Unless you trust the algorithm implicitly, you end up having to verify all the pairs that it gene…7 -
Re: JAF Test Text Generator
Check out also Galvanized Jets, which puts those pairs in the context of words.2 -
Re: Rookie question. Is there no easy way to adjust a font file letter spacing and word spacing?
There are a whole flow-chart of questions we need to ask here: * Do you have permission, through the font's license, to do this? If not, stop now. * When you say the font's spacing is "weird&quo…2
