Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.

From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 14:33:20 EST

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    Gary P. Grosso wrote,

    > On Win2K, "Character Map" (charmap.exe) does not show anything
    > beyond the BMP. I haven't tried this on XP.

    Have you tried BabelMap or BabelPad? Both can show non-BMP...

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    Best regards,

    James Kass
    .
    > Since we're comparing notes on font tools, I recently was
    > asked to look over an experimental font which had, among
    > other things, characters in the Supplemental Multilingual
    > Plane and used CFF format. (I had to look up what CFF
    > format even was.)
    >
    > PFAEdit was able to load the font. At least I could see the
    > SMP characters; I didn't attempt any editing, kerning, etc.
    > I've always been fairly impressed with PFAEdit, which probably
    > deserves a name which reflects the fact that it goes well
    > beyond PFA files or even Type 1 fonts. In fact, I'd like
    > to see it ported to Windows.
    >
    > Font Creator Program couldn't load the font due to the CFF
    > format, which was disappointing, because I like FCP's
    > interface and other features, and was hoping to get an up
    > close and personal look at some of the glyphs, which seemed
    > to have some sort of height anomaly.
    >
    > On Win2K, "Character Map" (charmap.exe) does not show anything
    > beyond the BMP. I haven't tried this on XP.
    >
    > Gary
    >
    > At 09:00 AM 11/20/2003 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
    > >I haven't tested this myself, but from a look at the source code, it appears
    > that pfaedit (pfaedit.sourceforge.net) can generate format12 TTFs. (Open
    > Source, for UNIX).
    > >
    > >~mark
    > >
    > >On 11/20/03 03:12, Arcane Jill wrote:
    > >
    > >>
    > >>Is anyone able to answer this? I for one would really like to know.
    > >>Thanks
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>> -----Original Message-----
    > >>> From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang [mailto:ytang0648@aol.com]
    > >>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:29 AM
    > >>> To: John Jenkins
    > >>> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    > >>> Subject: Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>> Does FontLab support generating TTF in format12 (32 bits)?
    > >>> Which "cheaper solutions" could generating TTF in format12 (32 bits)?
    >
    >
    > ---
    > Gary Grosso
    > Arbortext, Inc.
    > Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    >
    >



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