Re: [Freebangfont-devel] announcement/RFC: new fonts

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:03 -0500, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> I recently (re)discovered some nice features of fontforge (formerly 
> pfaedit) which significantly reduces the development time required to 
> create new fonts (at least compared to the way I used to do it). 
> Basically this consists of using the 'Expand Stroke' feature in 
> fontforge, which has a variety of options leading to different styles 
> from the same basic outline.
> 

Details !!
Details !!

:)


> Anyway, using this approach, I have managed to create a couple of new 
> fonts from scratch in about 5 days (starting from the template, of 
> course, which takes care of the opentype lookups). The main work, i.e. 
> creating the basic glyph shapes, took 3 days, and the rest was mainly 
> figuring out suitable parameters (and occasionally booting up Windows 
> to see if it liked the results).

Looks good !!

> 
> I have put up the results at 
> 
> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Jamrul/JamrulNormal.ttf
> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Hortuki/HortukiNormal.ttf
> 
> They are far from perfect, but good enough as a first draft. I would 
> appreciate any testing and feedback. 
> 

Did some testing with the latest version of Pango (fresh from CVS) - rendering 
of juktolist.txt looks good.
-sdg-