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| From | Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: New fonts for RISC OS, comments welcome |
| Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:45:50 +0200 |
| Organization | MW Software |
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In message <5b84287b-3b50-4c9d-8acd-91a60648ed75@googlegroups.com>
"Michael J. Kerpan" <madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:19:35 PM UTC-4, Martin Wuerthner wrote:
>> The most likely problem with NetSurf is that this font has a private
>> encoding file with 286 entries, i.e., more than 256. Not sure whether
>> that is invalid, but it is certainly unusual. Traditionally, RISC OS
>> fonts with more than 256 glyphs use a base encoding. NetSurf (or, more
>> accurately, Rufl) probably only expects 256 entries in a private
>> encoding file.
> IIRC, Netsurf is actually one of the programs that CAN not only handle
> but make use of large fonts. The tool I used for the conversions was
> created by NetSurf team and it lists conversion of large fonts with
> good Unicode coverage as one of its features. Given that the fonts
> have worked for some on NetSurf with OS 4.x (and have worked for
> everybody using 5.x who's reported back), I wonder if perhaps some of
> the problems people might be having might stem from missing/improperly
> installed Unicode support libraries.
In a sense, yes, but what is behind all this is the Unicode
FontManager, which is not part of RISC OS 4/6. The NetSurf team has
done some excellent work to make sure that NetSurf works on RO4/6
systems (ordinary FontManager by default) and on RO5 systems (Unicode
FontManager). Some users have installed the RO5 FontManager on their
RO4/6 system, which improves the behaviour of NetSurf, but that is not
a prerequisite for running NetSurf. !ttf2f produces fonts that really
should be used with the RO5 FontManager.
--
Martin
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RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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