December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
Content preview from CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition
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Font Development Tools
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AsiaFont Studio eases the pain of manipulating fonts with thousands or tens of thousands
of glyphs by subdividing them into subfonts, each of which can be viewed independently,
and its glyphs can be freely moved and rearranged. AsiaFont Studio also provides the user
with the big picture, or a bird’s eye view, called the CMap view, which displays the entire
font in a single table.
To assist in the process of building CIDFont resources or corresponding OpenType ‘CFF’
tables that conform to public glyph sets, such as those published by Adobe Systems, Asia-
Font Studio is bundled with several bitmap-based templates that correspond to each of
the ve CJKV character collections that Adobe Systems has developed for building CID-
Font resources (see Table 6-28). Adobe Systems’ public CMap resources, as listed in Tables
6-30, 6-32, 6-34, 6-35, and 6-37, can be used with such fonts. Of course, users are free to
create their own character collections, if desired.
FontForge is another outline font editor that is quite capable, in terms of supporting a very
large number of glyphs up to the maximum that the formats allow, and in supporting a
wide variety of outline font formats.
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It is important to know that using an outline font editor that supports up to 64K glyphs is
not necessary in order to build such fonts. Such fonts can be managed through the build-
ing of smaller ...
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