Ruth:
Thanks for your suggestions! Unfortunately for us:
o It's not clear that the licensing of the font in question would allow
us to make modifications to it. (It's a commercial font, not a FOSS
font.)
o FontForge doesn't successfully open the font.(1)
> You should be able to use CSS ( Qt style parameters ) to modify line spacing
> and so on; such things are bread-and-butter of CSS anyway.
I'll look more deeply into this.
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Everyone, please keep the suggestions coming!
Atlant
(1) In older versions of FreeType+Qt, this font had trouble with
"horizontal advance" values not being used correctly, but this
was fixed at least as of Qt 4.8.3 and the then-current version
of FreeType. As far as I know, I's being drawn accurately by
Qt+FreeType, it just has too much leading for our purposes.
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Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Interest] Modifying the font metrics ("leading" and "tracking")
everywhere
Atlant Schmidt wrote:
I'd appreciate your help and especially an example!
It sounds to me as if your best bet is to create a derived version of the font
file with characteristics better suited to you. The open source program
fontforge is a good starting point for such things, and leading is a simple
thing to change with it.
It might be possible to load the font into memory and modify the in-memory copy
but I doubt very much that this will be quick or easy let alone portable.
You should be able to use CSS ( Qt style parameters ) to modify line spacing
and so on; such things are bread-and-butter of CSS anyway. Overall
Inter-character spacing changes are a part of CSS3 IIRC and Qt may not honour
such things, though you may be lucky. Modifying kerning is harder, and probably
best left for fontforge.
HTH
Ruth
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