Examples of using Fontforge in English and their translations into Chinese
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FontForge only knows about the classification scheme for Latin fonts.
FontForge does provide a mechanism which might help you avoid this.
FontForge generally wastes a lot of memory keeping undoes around.
FontForge uses these units as the basis of its coordinate system.
The main(FontForge) manual has a section describing how PostScript differs from TrueType.
Why do I release FontForge with the BSD license and not GPL?
FontForge requires a color(or grey-scale) monitor- black& white will not suffice.
It would probably be possible to rewrite FontForge to use a more efficient memory representation.
How to design a glyph in Inkscape so it can readily be imported into FontForge.
FontForge can ostensibly do everything that FontLab can, and it's free and open-source.
FontForge can use Potrace or AutoTrace to auto trace bitmap images and import them into a font.
If I spend my time doing that conversion I won't be making FontForge more functional.
FontForge is mainly limited by memory(though screen real estate can be a problem too).
Perhaps I am naif, but I don't believe that anyone is going to start selling FontForge.
FontForge knows how to read both of these formats and can extract a postscript or truetype font from either.
FontForge's naming conventions are those specified in Adobe's glyph naming conventions, and, unfortunately, there are some problems here(generally for compatibility with old encodings).
FontForge has a check box on the Generate Font Options dialog labelled[] Apple.
There was an interesting thread recently over at Typophile about FontForge that you might want to read, if you're considering taking the open-source plunge.
The FontForge project was founded by George Williams as a retirement project, and initially published from 2001 to March 2004 as PfaEdit.
Parts of FontForge code are used by the LuaTeX typesetting engine for reading and parsing OpenType fonts.