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Re: potentially stupid questions from a new user
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Tom Kacvinsky |
Subject: |
Re: potentially stupid questions from a new user |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:58:53 -0400 (EDT) |
Hi David,
>
> I'm very new to Freetype, so apologies in advance for any stupid
> questions that I may ask ;-)
>
> To start off with, I don't suppose anybody has got any code to go
> through a vector outline and dump the data in a more human readable
> format (like something similar to that produced by t1disasm)?
>
For what kind of fonts? For Type 1, you are right on the money with
t1disasm. For True Type fonts, I don't know of a tool that will give
you outline information in a format like t1disasm. There is, however,
a True Type to XML tool called TTX. It is from Just van Rossum, who
is on this list.
I have an incomplete CFF disassembler, but it is from another
person. I'd have to ask him if it is all right to redistribute his
code. Bsides, I have to fix some stuff with respect to dunping
correct hintmask/cntrmask data.
For CFF fonts there is also the possibility of using ftview with
-d -l 4
which will dump outline data to stdout (or is it stderr?). You could
then parse the resulting log...
> Also, has anybody thought about (or actually done) taking the glyph
> outline data, and using it to generate a Type 1 PFB/AFM set? Just
> asking, as this could be a neat way of converting TT and OTF fonts
> to T1.
>
Thought about it, yes. Worked on it, no. You could always install
the OpenType/CFF font on a Windows box (using ATM 4.1), and print to a
PS file. The AdobePS driver will autoconvert the CFF data to Type 1
data (without subroutine data). I am not sure if it will do the
correct thing with hint replacement.
Tom