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<!-- AP: Created on: 7-Jul-2001 -->
<!-- AP: Last modified: 2-Jan-2005 -->
<TITLE>Possible future improvements to FontForge</TITLE>
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<div style="margin:0; height: 4 em; padding: 0.5em; background: red; color:yellow; text-align:center; font-size:1em; font-family: sans-serif;">
<p><a href="http://fontforge.github.io" style="padding: 0.5em; color: yellow; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" onmouseover="this.style.background='black';" onmouseout="this.style.background='red';" >This is part of the old website. New website begins at fontforge.github.io</a></p>
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Currently under development
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<UL>
<LI>
Moving to the gtk-2 widget set.
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<LI>
Don't expect anything soon. I don't find this an interesting task. One widget
set is much like another, such a conversion is a lot of work and doesn't
involve any functional improvement. (Indeed I am currently ignoring this
because gdk is <EM>less</EM> capable of dealing with images than my own drawing
system -- at least in the ways that matter to me, and I don't want to rewrite
all my image code)
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<LI>
A command that will allow you to (but this has been listed here for a couple
of years so don't expect anything much)
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<LI>
Make a character/font bolder
<LI>
Extend or Condense a character/font
<LI>
Change the X-Height of a font
<LI>
Regularize stem widths
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<H2>
Musings
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<UL>
<LI>
multiple baseline support
<LI>
Vertical metrics in embedded ttf bitmaps
<LI>
Better import of xfig files (a real X-Spline -> Bézier spline
converter)
<LI>
Mechanism for creating fonts with multiple instances of the same character,
each slightly different, coupled with a postscript routine which will for
each character in a string, pick a random version of that character to display.
An attempt to yield a slight non-uniformity to the font which may make its
output look more interesting.
<LI>
A better way of aligning things. (need some form of grouping that is actually
useful)
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Last updated: 12-Feb-2004
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