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Topic: German characters (Read 1742 times) |
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Wolfgang Schlaffer
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German characters
« on: Oct 31st, 2003, 11:33am » |
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is it possible at all to have geman umlauts (ä, ö, ü ...) in processing BFonts?
I am working on a program and just noticed that there are only blanks where should be umlauts...
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christian
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Re: German characters
« Reply #1 on: Nov 1st, 2003, 12:50am » |
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ich weiss nicht genau, was du machen willst, aber
es gibt die funktion "create font", mit der man
aus TT-schriftsätzen .gz-fonts erstellen kann.
die darstellungsqualität ist allerdings mau...
i don´t know what you exactly want to do with
umlauts, but there is a function called "create font"
(sketch/create font...) which converts true type fonts
into the .gz format. this lacks quality, but it works
greets
christian
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fry
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Re: German characters
« Reply #2 on: Nov 3rd, 2003, 5:17pm » |
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it doesn't currently. we had hoped to have a new font format by now which would fix this issue, but perhaps we can fix it even with the current file format. 
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christian
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Re: German characters
« Reply #3 on: Nov 5th, 2003, 7:11pm » |
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that would be great too 
i discussed with a few friends who also start
to use p5 about the tool-character-lacking of
p5. i think that especially for designers and
"infografics". will there be any extension in this
direction to be implemented in the first release version?
for visualization, it really works fantastic, but
to build a complete tool with, i think you have
to learn a good amount of java.
greets
christian
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fry
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Re: German characters
« Reply #4 on: Nov 5th, 2003, 8:03pm » |
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on Nov 5th, 2003, 7:11pm, christian wrote:that would be great too
i discussed with a few friends who also start
to use p5 about the tool-character-lacking of
p5. i think that especially for designers and
"infografics". will there be any extension in this
direction to be implemented in the first release version
for visualization, it really works fantastic, but
to build a complete tool with, i think you have
to learn a good amount of java. |
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i understand the need for the non-ascii characters for other languages, it's merely an artifact of the file format. the file format wasn't supposed to last this long (and it's embarrassing that it has), we've been planning to move to truetype 'sfnt' fonts.
as for the tool aspect, i'm not sure if i understand your question/suggestion. could you explain actually, it sounds like it might not be related to the font stuff, so if it's a suggestion, could you make a separate post about it in the 'suggestions' section so we can keep track of it
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fry
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Re: German characters
« Reply #5 on: Jan 8th, 2004, 4:53am » |
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ok, i've just completed the code for incorporating non-ascii characters (umlauts, bullets, ellipses) in the fonts. so this will be possible starting in rev 68.
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