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Re: Can we use Bitmap color fonts in browsers?
It depends on the browser. There are two colour bitmap formats defined in the OpenType specification: Apple’s SBIX format and Google’s EBDT (CBDT/CBLC) format. You can use ChromaCheck to test what co…2 -
Re: Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Those characters are specific to East Asian typography, so without CJK support they’re not useful. The ‘width’ referred to is CJK character width.3 -
Re: Fontlab 7 vs Monotype's Font Validator
It sounds like it might be an issue on their side. Possibly their website back end is not replacing the old files, but trying to add the new ones as duplicates, triggering these kind of warnings. I h…3 -
Re: Seeking Recommendations for a Bitmap-to-Outline Workflow
I found FontLab’s autotrace function pretty good. It was initially the stand-alone ScanFont tool, now directly incorporated as ‘Separate and Trace’ in FL8. You can also open BDF format directly in FL…2 -
Re: mark on mark for Indic clusters
Yes, you can definitely apply marks to marks in the abvm and blwm positioning features. I don’t work with fea code, so I can’t easily spot what might be the problem in your source, but these are the …1
