On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:01:41PM +0800, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Khaled, > I don't think we have discussed before. I'm glad to see someone is > working on font development. > > FYI, i have developed a Quran font that have complete symbol to render > the Madinah Mushaf. You can find it at arabicfonts.wikisapces.com. > Your fonts is really a great achievement, I'd like to discuss with you the possibilities of releasing it under a free license, OFL may be, and distributing it with our font collection. > As for the issues of small size display, I have a different opinion. > In my opinion, hinting may not be the best solution. Instead, you may > want to try embedding bitmap into the font. I have done this. You can > see my font (modified from kacst) at > http://mrykacstqurn.wikispaces.com/ that have the exact feature. At > the moment, it only has 2 bitmap sizes, which is 16px and 21px ( I > think, could not remember anymore). I'm not the expert here, I just assumed that hinting should help fonts in small sizes, but I didn't test it though. >If you are interested to know more, I'm willing to share my experience. > I'd really appreciate this, I'm by all means new in the font development field and have very short experience. -- Khaled
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