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Re: Variation Sequence Characters in a font?
Variation selector sequences are not handled in OTL. Technically, they could have been, via the ccmp feature for example, but Microsoft [260201 correction: Adobe proposed this; see @"Peter Const…4 -
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
