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A look back at the 1980s and 1990s when a new computer-based design industry was built around the Macintosh and companies like Adobe, Apple and Microsoft moved from bitmap to vector fonts. -
Greg Hitchcock from Microsoft sheds some light on the beginnings of the TrueType format and its development over the years. -
Hello, I'm just delving into font technologies, so please forgive whatever ignorance demonstrated by my question. I'm modifying and extending an Erlang application that generates PDF files: https://github.com/hwatkins/erlguten Currently it supports 13 Adobe Type I fonts. I'd like to add OpenSource TrueType fonts. To do this, I need to end up with modules that looks something like this: https://github.com/hwatkins/erlguten/blob/master/src/eg_font_7.erl NOTE: You can open *.erl files with any text editor. In other words, I need to convert TrueType font metrics into the format illustrated in this file. ErlGuten has a conversion module that may or may not help: https://github.com/hwatkins/erlguten/blob/master/src/eg_afm.erl Googling galore, I find many references to TrueType .ttf files, but can't find how to derive/find the actual metrics. Can kind souls please point the way? And/or please let me know if I'm missing anything else of importance to complete my task. All the best, LRP eg_font_7.erl eg_afm.erl
