Scalable-Font Tools?

Posted by Cliff on Friday February 1, 2002 @03:50AM from the sansing-those-serifs dept.

DarkVein writes "My question is twofold. First, with the introduction of WebFonts from W3C, are there any projects underway to develop a real Web Font format, or are Type1 and Truetype thought to be sufficient? Secondly, I seem to be at a loss to find any decent and open font creation tools, especially ones capable of Unicode. The best I've found is GETO which seems to have been abandoned about a year and a half ago, without notice. I've had a long standing desire to get my feet wet designing one or two decent Unicode fonts, but most of the options seem to only be available for MacOS9, Win32 and require far higher prices."

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Links by hether · 2002-02-01 06:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

Perhaps some of the links on this page will help?
http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp/index.html

Of course I've been wrong before...

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web fonts by wcb4 · 2002-02-01 11:51 · Score: 2, Interesting

Both NS and MS come out with competing formats for fonts for web pages at one time. Did this die the same horrible death as "Channels". I think MS's format used a program called WEFT to make fonts (web embedded font technology or some such) and was free. Netscape's used some technology developed by bitstream and I seem to remember the creation program being relatively expensive. Both worked quite well (at least on Mac and PC, I was not using linux at the time) What ever happened to this?

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