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From: dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help needed with HP-Deskwriter & Localtalk
Message-ID: <1056@goblin.ntg.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 18:08:03 GMT
References: <3592@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1991Jun7.005742.5236@calvin.ee.cornell.edu>
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In article <1991Jun7.005742.5236@calvin.ee.cornell.edu> jose@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Jose M. Rosado Roman) writes:

>I have ftped some true type fonts from sumex but although they are nice
>(thanks for posting!) I would like to know if it is possible to get the
>fonts with accented characters.  There is a world out there that
>unfortunately likes to read text with accented words, eg. spanish, french.
>Any clues out there?  Will fontographer, et al, work on TT fonts??

I'm not certain about Fontographer.  I know that most of the
professional font-foundary applications have been, or are being updated
to work with TrueType fonts.

The least-expensive way to create accented-character versions of outline
fonts is probably to use FontMonger.  Although FontMonger does not
have a full-featured font editor, it does have the ability to create
"composite" characters.  For example, if the font contains an "a" and a
"'" character, you can combine then to create an accented "a"... you
simply create a new character-cell, copy and paste in the outlines for
the two existing characters, tweak their positions until you're happy
with the result, and then "freeze" the composite outline and store it in
the appropriate location in the font.  You cannot alter the outlines of
the characters you're compositing, but you can apply certain linear
transformations (compression, stretching, and shearing).

FontMonger is available for roughly $65 from MacConnection.  Many of the
TrueType fonts now available on SUMEX were translated from PostScript to
TrueType via FontMonger.

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