Greetings, I previously posted about the work Microsoft has done to open source the compilers of Visual TrueType. The first version included a command line tool that could be used to compile VTT sour… (View Post)
Thanks @"Viktor Rubenko" for the report and a test font. VTT autohinter has a heuristic to find nearest attachment points and that seemed to fail for this composite glyph. I made the code m… (View Post)
My understanding Direct Write should process feature variations applied to any feature, not only <rvrn>. It's possible however there are subtleties in how the client calls Direct Write where th… (View Post)
Microsoft has released to open source a Python extension built using Cython for the purpose of testing text shaping of OpenType fonts using Direct Write. The model is similar to the model provided by… (View Post)