On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Werner LEMBERG
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Primarily i would like it to have the following functionality:
>
> 1) It should be able to display each glyph( i mean just like Fontlab
> studio where there is the font window and the glyph window) nd
> it's side bearings(Both horizontal and vertical(asian fonts))
> 2) One should be able to adjust the spacing and Kerning manually
> 3) auto kern and space feature should be there(I can develop my own
> algorithms or improve the previous algos)
Any reason for re-inventing the wheel? I rather suggest to use
FontForge, which is able to do what you want, IIRC. Or is this for
educational purposes only?
> I am only comfortable with python and C# but Freetype is written in
> C. Even I am beginner programmer and is there anyway I can use
> Freetype and python to make the application i want?
Use the python bindings from the `freetype-py' project:
http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
Werner