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<TITLE>Possible future improvements to PfaEdit</TITLE>
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Currently under development
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A command that will allow you to (but very little effort)
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Make a character/font bolder
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Extend or Condense a character/font
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Change the X-Height of a font
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Regularize stem widths
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<A HREF="TtfMod/index.html">Some sort of graphical true-type hinter</A>
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Musings
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A metrics window for vertical metrics
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support for vertical kerning
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multiple baseline support
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Vertical metrics in embedded ttf bitmaps
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A Find/Replace command that will allow you to search for features and replace
them with others<BR>
The dlg will provide two little drawing panes (one to find, one to replace)
the program will search for a series of points in the same relative positions
(possibly translated, flipped or followed backwards) and if found will replace
it with the the points in the replace window. I see two uses for this:
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Change all the serifs in a font from one style to another.
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Search for all inline copies of a glyph and replace each with a reference.
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Some kind of support for multiple master fonts
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An editing mode which supports more features that type3 fonts could use (ie.
multiple colors, strokes, ...)
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Better import of xfig files (a real X-Spline -> Bezier spline converter)
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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.
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A better way of aligning things. (need some form of grouping that is actually
useful)
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Last updated: 16-Jan-2002
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