6 Dec
2016
6 Dec
'16
10:21 a.m.
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Carsten Kurz via DCPomatic wrote:
It's not the most thrilling corner of human endeavour, but it's very much
the sort of thing that people shouldn't have to think about ...
Thanks,
Carl
Am 03.12.2016 um 22:38 schrieb Carl Hetherington via DCPomatic:
OK, we should probably investigate that.
http://dcpomatic.com/mantis/view.php?id=1028
It is supposed to use the font that you specify
... I wonder why it didn't.
Maybe it will, as long as that font has the necessary glyphs. Maybe only
if it doesn't, it may resort to a system font selection? The problem is,
you don't know when that happens. Well, it may be obvious for chinese,
but not for others. Also I am not sure for other OS's.
I suppose in an ideal world DoM would be able to do the font-compressor
thing itself.
Yeah, I think we talked about that before. It just seems too much work
to only accommodate for some rare fonts that are too large. At least for
the 'western world', it seems a single font not even touching the
640KByte limit caters for all common languages. It may be a bit of a
eurocentric position but then, you only know what you know... If only
font compressor was a java application, or available in source code.
Have you ever played with font compressor? Maybe it get's you infected.
I mean, it's not SO exciting to throw away unused glyphs from a font
file. Don't know if there are libraries or sources to deal with TTF
files on that level.