true-type-fonts

Windows: Getting glyph outlines for substitution characters from other fonts

I need to render fonts into a 3d game world, so I use the GetGlyphOutline outline function to get the glyph shapes to render into a texture. However, I want to be able to handle the case where characters are not present in the given font (as is often the case for asian other other international text). Windows text rendering will automati...

Failing to load font after burning to disk

I have an application which has a font stored within a jar file. It is loaded with: public Font getChessFont() { InputStream in = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("fonts\\MERIFONTNEW.TTF"); Font toReturn; try { toReturn = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, in); } catch (Exception e) { toReturn = gam...

Issue rendering truetype font in SVG

Hi, I'm having an issue with the rendering of a truetype font inside an svg being rendered to a pdf through fop. In the final pdf the font comes out with Times New Roman instead of the truetype font I had expected. The main font family of the document is using Type 1 fonts and are also using font metrics that I generated and these are...

extract font character image from ttf file

Hi! Does anyone knows how to extract the characters image from a font(ttf) file? ...

Editing true type fonts

In typical Persian fonts which are True Type, there is a historical problem with yeh and kafs, since these fonts are created for Windows 98, which didn't include full Persian support, and now, we have 2 kind of Kafs: Keheh(0x6a9, ک), and Arabic Kaf(0x643, ك), and 2 kind of Yehs: Farsi Yeh(0x6cc, ی), and Arabic Yeh(0x64a, ي). Old fonts us...

UIWebView to use customer font TTF

I want to use use a customer ttf font as the Web View's default font. the html documents i wish to display using UTF8 characters and they needs a special font ttf to display. btw, they are unicode characters on mac, i could change my default font to that xyz.ttf. on iphone safari i could not set default font for fallback. so, i am creati...

Get fontfile from a given font name

Hi I'm trying to get the file corresponding to a given system font, e.g: In my system I have the font "Algerian" with the corresponding file "C:\Windows\Fonts\ALGER.TTF", and the font Batang, with the file "C:\Windows\Fonts\batang.ttc". I've seen a couple of posts saying that I can do this by iterating the fonts folder and extracting t...

PHP: creating a smooth edged circle, image or font?

I'm making a PHP image script that will create circles at a given radius. I used: <?php imagefilledellipse ( $image, $cx, $cy, $w, $h, $color ); ?> but hate the rough edges it produces. So I was thinking of making or using a circle font that I will output using: <?php imagettftext ( $image, $size, $angle, $x, $y, $color, 'fontfile...

How do I use TrueType fonts with LaTeX

I need to use a font family in my LaTeX documents, that is available as 18 .TTF (TrueTypeFont) files. Where do I have to copy the files in my MiKTeX 2.8 installation? How Do I make the fonts to available for LaTeX? I usually use pdfLaTeX. I read in Truetype-Fonts in LaTeX that TTF fonts are available without creating all the .TFM file...

embed ttf as embeded resource: can't reference it

I've just added a ttf file to the project (c# 2008 express) as "file" and build option to embedded resource. I'm having problems when trying to set this font like this: (I know the next line is wrong...) this.label1.Font = AlarmWatch.Properties.Resources.Baby_Universe; Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'byte[]' to 'Sys...

Way to reduce size of .ttf fonts?

Hello , Is there any way to reduce the size of the .ttf fonts? i.e. if we want to remove some glyps which we are not using. ...

Missing chars in JpGraph

I have a web site that runs on Windows and uses cp1252 (aka Win-1252) so it can display Spanish characters. The app generates some plots with JpGraph 2.3. These plots use the Tahoma Open Type font family to display text labels. Strings are provided in ANSI (i.e., cp1252) and font files support cp1252 (actually, the *.ttf files were copie...

Dump characters (glyphs) from TrueType font (TTF) into bitmaps

I have a custom TrueType font (TTF) that consists of a bunch of icons, which I'd like to render as individual bitmaps (GIF, PNG, whatever) for use on the Web. You'd think this is a simple task, but apparently not? There is a huge slew of TTF-related software here: http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/ttsoftware.html But it's all varying le...

How to get a glyph outline of a true type character on a linux system

Hello, I'm searching for a library to get the outline of a glyph in a true type font on a linux system. We are using Pango and Cairo but unfortunatly I didn't find anything. I'm looking for somethig similar to GlyphTypeface.GetGlyphOutline under .NET Any help or hints are appreciated! Thanks in advance ...

Using external fonts in a Java Applet.

Is it possible to use a font not on the user's machine for text displayed in a java applet. Like linking to a ttf font file in the same location as the java applet almost in an @fontface fashion. ...

Java monospace draw string

Hello! How can I draw a String in Java (using Graphics2d) in monospace mode? I have a font that looks like LCD screen font, and I want to draw something like LCD label. I am using Digital 7 Mono font. Do you know where I can find another font that will be monospace and lcd (I wan to type only digitals)? ...

Fitting Text into an Image

Hello all, I have a function which takes in a font (ttf or otf file) and generates an image of text in different fonts. The problem I have is trying to work out how I can make the text fit in the image regardless of the font-size, type of font, and amount of text. I have tried to make the image rectangle variable so that it contains t...

iphone webview dynamic font support

Friends, I am trying to build a simple iphone application to view a local webpage that uses dynamic fonts. The url is www.eenadu.net. I have just a single view based application and inserted a webview into the view and implementing the webviewdelegate in viewcontroller. The site uses ttf/eot fonts that are dynamically downloadable by bro...

OpenType Font Parsing for Pleasure and Profit (anyone understand these damn tables?)

So, this is mainly for fun, I'm poking around and trying to find my way inside a few fonts and i have a few questions i'd reeally appreciate some help on if anyone has done this kind of stuff. cmap table The fonts i am testing with contain several cmap subtables of different formats. I can read them, but i don't understand which i shou...

Extracting glyph-path information from ttf files

I'm trying to figure out a way to extract the information encoded in ttf files. namely: The char-to-glyph table and the individual glyph path data. Does anyone have a good reference explaining the ttf file structure, or some other solution? Keep in mind that I'm not interested in any libraries that can do it for me either (unless they ...