From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 16:26:27 EST
On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 01:12 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> Another option for re-encoding fonts is to hack the font cmap table
> itself. The easiest way to do this is probably with Just van Rossum's
> TTX tool. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/. This is a
> Python-based open source tool that decompiles TTF and OTF fonts to a
> human-readable XML file, which can then be edited and recompiled to a
> font. I have used this tool for a variety of purposes, but do not have
> any experience working on fonts with supplementary plane codepoints,
> so cannot verify its usefulness for this purpose.
>
For people on Mac OS X, there is a set of tools available for download
from <http://developer.apple.com/fonts/> which, like TTX, can decompile
table from TrueType and OpenType fonts and let the user edit the
results. These *do* support astral characters.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
jhjenkins@mac.com
http://www.tejat.net/
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