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Re: OpenType to AAT conversion
There are a number of techniques where a finite state machine (FSM) can be automatically built from a corpus, see https://borjaballe.github.io/other/phdthesis.pdf Since "morx" is an FSM, it…1 -
Re: OpenType to AAT conversion
This is principally possible, but non-trivial. In OpenType, Telugu requires actions done by the font and actions done by the engine: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/tel…2 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
In 1980, the world literacy rate was about 56% out of 4.5 billion people, while today it is about 85% out of 7.5 billion people. There are now 4.5 billion mobile phones and among those, 2.3 billion a…1 -
Re: Hinting and OS X
AFAIK, it used to be so that after gridfitting, a monochrome bitmap was always produced, and then filtering/antialiasing happened. But today, this isn't always the case because type rendering of…1 -
Re: Hinting and OS X
There are two fundamental steps to screen type rendering: 1. Gridfitting. 2. Rasterization. In the first step, the glyph outline is modified (distorted). PostScript hints and TrueType instructions in…3
