Re: Font help

[abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

Type 1 specification:
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/T1_SPEC.PDF

also see:

http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/ftechnotes.jsp

Postscript Specification:

http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/PLRM.pdf

The best way to find more is to do a search from the adobe.com site rather 
than google.

I don't know exactly what you're trying to do but it seems to me that the best 
thing, as you say, is to create a font with arabic presentation glyphs only. 
Forget about any latin characters. Make sure that CUPS is taking all UTF 
0xFExx characters and then mapping them into the range 1 - 255. Perhaps an 
algorithm such as charcode = 0xFExx - 0xFE6F or something like that. Then 
create the font based on a standard Latin encoding, e.g. char 0x41  = 'A'. 
Then put glyph (0xFE70 + 0x41) = (isolated HAH?) into the 'A' position. You 
need to get hold of the standard adobe encoding, so you know where to put 
each glyph, I think. If not, you will need to provide your own encoding which 
is best avoided, I believe.

However, bearing in mind that you're using a conversion tool, the position of 
each glyph is not entirely in your control I suppose.

This is all assuming lots of things that I've probably got wrong but maybe it 
will provide a few hints.

wassalaam



On Wednesday 05 May 2004 23:23, ahmad khalifa wrote:
> >From: abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>
> >All the postscript manuals (including a detailed description of what a
> > type 1
> >font file is) can be downloaded as pdf files from the Adobe site, and they
> >are very good, but take a day to digest.
>
> thanks for the explanation, can you provide a url to those docs ? i googled
> for
> type 1 fonts, but didnt get any usefull explanation like yours and
> roozbeh's
>
> about the presentation form glyphs, i think in CUPS it would be easier to
> just
> put them in a separate font.
>
>
> ak.
>
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