From: Kino (quinon@rio.odn.ne.jp)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 13:54:58 EST
On Mar 30, 2004, at 02:14, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
> Edward H. Trager wrote:
>
>>> Does anyone know of a good program for examining fonts? What I am
>>> looking for is some way to, given a font, find out both the glyphs
>>> contained and the code points (bad term?) at which those glyphs are
>>> situated. Ability to read hinting/shaping tables a bonus.
>>> Suggestions?
>>
>> In my quick review of responses to your question, I believe you have
>> only received suggestions regarding programs on the Microsoft
>> platform. On Linux, "pfaedit" is the program to use . . .
Binary for OS X is available with PfaEdit or rather FontForge. X11 is
required. There's a non-X11 package but anyway...
<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/>
> And for the Macintosh there is Fontchecker
> (http://www.wundermoosen.com/Multi.aspx?
> f=1&tab=MacX&nav=abCde&page=fc).
Hiya Séamas ;-) I'd like to recommend you to try Unicode Font Info if
you have not.
<http://pixel.recoil.org/cocoa/unicodefontinfo.html>
On OS X, you can extract cmap table -- "code points" -- and other
tables from a font by ftxdumperfuser included in Apple Font Tools.
<http://developer.apple.com/fonts/OSXTools.html>
Released in Jaguar days but work fine with Panther.
You can use FontLab as a font viewer having useful features in demo
mode. Dunno about Windows version though.
<http://font.to/html/fontlab.html>
Kino
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