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Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness.
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Chia-I Wu |
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Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness. |
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Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:59:17 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:39:02AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > though it is possible that I missed something while reading a map
> > page, going to take a better look at it later. In any case, the best
> > option is to make an original .ttf look good.
> I suggest to use FontForge to do what you want. This can be
> controlled with scripts also.
FontForge seems to ignore the hints in the font. I use gbdfed instead
to generate the bitmaps.
That is, use gbdfed to generate a bdf font (10pt at 96 dpi). Then use
FontForge to open the original Monaco.ttf, import this bdf font, and
generate a bitmap-embedded TrueType font. The result is:
http://people.debian.org.tw/~olv/freetype/monaco-lin-13px_bitmap.png
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Regards,
olv
Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness., David Turner, 2006/10/11