fonts

Why does Java Swing html font rendering look so crappy ?

To display a complex multi-line label with multiple styling I use Swing's html rendering capabilities and end up with really crappy font rendering. I have tried to explicitly set the font family - infoLabel.setText("<html><span style='font-family:Tahoma;'>My text.. But compared to non-HTML text, the JLabel with HTML text always rende...

changing font color of text in a disabled CEdit control

I want to change the font color of text in a disabled CEdit control which is currently system gray. As I use a gray background, I wish to change the font color of text ( currently set to rgb value of COLOR_GRAYTEXT) in order to make it easier to read. There is a solution by using SetSysColors() but that has an ill effect of changing ...

Extract Geometry from Font

I'd like to be able to extract the geometry for each letter in a TrueType font file. Each letter would have a set of coordinates, assuming each letter is in its own grid. As a picture tells a thousand words - I'd like to get the vertices for letters similar to the image below (courtesy of http://polymaps.org/) Update Thanks to the ...

.net DrawString Hebrew font with zero-width characters

Are there any additional properties or parms in the DrawString to solve this problem. I have a Hebrew font with many zero-width characters so that two characters should render in the same location. This example shows the .NET problem on the left, and what is should look like on the right: http://hebrewresources.com/html5/images/ren...

Flash: How to share embedded fonts with text fields in multiple movie clips

Hello All, After a lot of experiments and reading many articles, Q&As, I still didn't find the answers to my problem, then I decided to ask my question at great stackoverflow forum:-) The setup of my project is as follows: - Create an AS3 project in Flash Builder 4 (Main.as3proj), and write source code in it; - Create graphical assets ...

How to turn off anti-aliasing on an embedded font.

I have a pixel font from www.fontsforflash.com. I have embedded it using flex then loaded the swf in flash CS4 to make it available. But its very blurry and I can find a way to turn off anti-aliasing in as3. Its the right size and placed with whole numbers. The reason I have embedded this method is because I don't want to load an entire...

Rendering fonts from flash to image

Hello All, I am trying to render an image with text and images that are on a .swf file. What i am doing is saving all the objects and their properties in an XML and then using imagemagick to render all that. the problem i am facing is that imagemagick treats fonts very different than Flash, so i don't get a perfect copy of what i see in...

printing in java; missing spaces

I'm trying to print a swing component to paper. It's basically an extended JPanel which hosts (among other things) multiple JTextFields. These fields look correct when viewed on the screen, but when printed to paper, the text in the fields is not printed correctly... in some fields, the spaces in between words is quite large, in other fi...

Add accent marks with custom colors in .Net's RichTextBox

Using the Text property of a WinForms' RichTextBox, you can show a letter with an accent above it, in a way that the letter is one character, and the accent is another one. I.e., also visually it looks like one character, it actually consists of two. In Unicode terms, the letter is called a 'base character', while the accent is called 'c...

Python text to image generation problems

I'm using PIL to load in various fonts and draw text to images. At the basic level, it all works. However, I am running into a number of problems such as letters being clipped (mainly cursive or stylistic fonts with lots of tails and such). textsize() does return width/height values, yet letters are still clipped. There also doesn't see...

Font and images with transparency are distorted

Hello Everybody! I faced with such problem on Huawei U8100 Device If I use SurfaceView component to draw text or images with transparecy, leads to noticeable distortion: AntiAliased text is distorted less than not AA text, but it also very hard to read it. Using of different truetype fonts has same result. All other applications,...

How to use try catch in NSIS

hi im getting a weird error on few machines in my nsis installer while installing. Its is giving "Invalid win32 file handle" while installing fonts using fontreg.nsh i've tried google but didnt got an answer to this issue. now im thinking to suppress this message, so is there any way to suppress the message or if possible suggest me sol...

Amend space between lines of characters typed using a bit map font file

Hi, I have a bitmap font file that I use as a custom font. Is it possible to amend the line spacing of this font file ? Thanks ...

Why my report has strange fonts when I export it to PDF file?

Hi I have a report which has been created by Crystal Reports 8.5. When I run my application (vb6) and wanna show the report, every thing is all right but problem begins when I export it to PDF file. The .pdf file has strange fonts and can NOT be read . I have used "Tahoma" font for displaying text on the report. What is your solution? ...

how to create pdf file which contains marathi font using itext ?

Hi Frinds, I have to create report using itext but the language should be hindi or marathi. Is it possible to make pdf file which contains marathi font like mangal,shruti,shree-dev...etc if yes plz reply me Thank you! ...

Embed Font Futura Book

Hi. I'm trying to embed the font Futura Book in my Flex application using css: /* Futura Book */ @font-face { src:url("../fonts/futura.ttf"); font-family: "Futura Book"; } @font-face { src:url("../fonts/futurab.ttf"); font-family: "Futura Book"; font-weight: bold; } @font-face { src:url("../fonts/futurabi.ttf"...

How do I calculate x-height i.e. ex of a Font object?

The x-height is a font metric, that is given in terms of the em-height, and is approximately 0.48 of an em, but this depends on the font... In CSS these two units are available, I am interested in the ex unit. There is also an em unit, such that the ex unit is given in terms of it. The following table shows some metrics, available thro...

Barcode font not loading dynamically in MS Word when generating RTF from Java using iText

Hi Folks, I am using iText API to generate RTF using Java. The RTF file is generated fine but one requirement is adding a barcode. What i did is: FontFactory.register("c:\\windows\\fonts\\FREE3OF9.ttf", "Free 3 of 9 Extended"); return FontFactory.getFont("Free 3 of 9 Extended",20, Font.NORMAL, Color.BLACK); I tried loading other font...

Using CSS @font-face with the iPad/iPhone

I'm trying to use the font-face attribute of CSS with a custom font: @font-face { font-family: "Handvetica"; src: url("Handvetica.eot"); src: url("Handvetica.ttf") format("truetype"), url("Handvetica.otf") format("opentype"), url("Handvetica.woff") format("woff"), url("Handvetica.svg#Handvetica") format("svg");...

How does typekit.com work ? @font-face

How does typekit.com work ? There are many site like typekit allow css designers to use custom fonts ? but how ? How can I make a site like typekit ? What technology is used ? Are there any open source ? ...