This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. ĪCAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Japanese page that explains the various electronic font formats. Judy Litt at QuaLitty Design in Austin discusses typography, and provides links to font sites and font software, and offers general advice on all things typographic (hinting, font choice, font editors, etcetera). This project aims to create a tool that can turn a spec file into a parser skeleton for binary data files such as OpenType fonts, PNG images, etc. Īdobe Binary Screen Font, binary version of. The following Unix tools are discussed: Freetype, Fontconfig, Cairo, Qt and Xft.
It explains font hinting, anti-aliasing, subpixel rendering and positioning, and gives a survey of the state of the art, and pays special attention to X11 and Unix. The title of this informative article is A Treatise on Font Rasterisation With an Emphasis on Free Software. Apparently, a 2d-font to 3d-font conversion tool. Software on the CD-ROM produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC.
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