Re: GetGlyphOutline API


"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Options:
- go Unicode all the way, and use MSLU for Win 9x

I spent some time exploring that. But as I have an apliction with lots of
its own DLLs, MFC is used in DLL form. In that case the MFC and runtime
libraries need recompiling in order to allow one to use MSLU. A clearer
statement that Microsoft does not really support MSLU could not be made
:-( So I drew the line there and waited until I can afford to drop
Win9x support.

That moment will come at my next release. [Largely motivated by Welsh Male
Voice Choirs: The Welsh language has a w with a ^ on it (a "to bach" =
"little roof"), and this letter apparently exists in no known code page!
But it's dead easy in Unicode.]

- take a look at T2W/W2T for conversions that MUST be done (ie MIDI)

I'm doing such conversions all over the place, mostly with CStringW and
CStringA constructors when I'm happy to use the system code page. (I
discovered these before I found A2W etc, but must of my string manipulation
is done with CStrings anyway.)

Yes, it is a pitty that practically Fontographer died.
You might take a look at FontForge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/)
I did not try it, but seems decent enough.
And since all you probably need is adding Unicode cmaps (no glyph changes,
no
nothing), might be jsut fines.
And if you try it, please share the experience, good or bad :-)

Thanks. I may well do that.

But when I finally gave up any hope that someone would update Fontographer
(and fix some of its bugs) I invested in another one:

http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator.html

which I find to be a very reasonable product for a reasonable price.
Fontographer is nice for editing glyphs - or would be if I wasn't so worried
about its bugs and forever maiking back-ups. (Or maybe I'm just used to
it.) FontCreator is nicer for managing the font as a whole.

Dave
--
David Webber
Author MOZART the music processor for Windows -
http://www.mozart.co.uk
For discussion/support see
http://www.mozart.co.uk/mzusers/mailinglist.htm


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