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Font adaption

Postby Thorsten » Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:56 pm

Not sure whether this is a canvas question or not, but:

I have a monospace font. I'd like to use it to (optionally) replace LiberationMono-Bold.ttf ( the canvas default). I can load the other font by defining a font mapper - but the sizes doesn't match, the new font is too large, the display layout is screwed.

Now, for monospace fonts this ought to be a piece of cake with at most two numbers (scale of the glyph bounding box in x and y). ttf fundamentally is a vector description, so it ought to be as easy as that.

But I don't want to apply this scaling for each text element.

So I need some advice - can canvas do it at font loading time? Or how would I go about changing it with an offline tool mapping the bounding boxes to a different ttf file? Does anyone have experience with font manipulation? I've never worked with ttf, I just know how to create fonts for LaTeX, which is conceptually similar, but has a completely different toolchain.
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Re: Font adaption

Postby Johan G » Wed Dec 14, 2016 10:18 pm

Sorry for getting off topic, but...
Thorsten wrote in Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:56 pm:I've never worked with ttf, I just know how to create fonts for LaTeX [...]

...could I guess that you have made fonts for two particular constructed languages? :wink:
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Re: Font adaption

Postby Thorsten » Thu Dec 15, 2016 7:15 am

Yeah, I did that one back when I was a student with too much time on my hands:

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