Hello
I'm trying to convert my favorite Linux programming/console font (misc
fixed 9x18) to a format usable by native OS X applications, but I'm
running into a problem with the line height of the converted font.
I downloaded the source bdf files from the website of the original
designer:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.htmlThen I opened 9x18.bdf into Fontforge and tried a simple Generate
Fonts, saving the font as an Apple bitmap-only .dfont file (and "No
outline font" selected.)
The process mostly succeeded, as I can now select the font in OS X
applications, but the line height is not right.
The original font is a monospaced 9x18 bitmap, with a line-height of
exactly 18 pixels. But the generated dfont seems to be rendered by
all programs with 4px of additional ascent. I'm not sure about the
terminology, I mean that the 9x18 glyphs are rendered at the bottom of
a 9x22 grid. I checked this by looking at some inverted text in the
terminal.
In some OS X applications, such as Terminal, I can override the line
height. Setting this to 0.80 masks the problem, as ceil(22 * .8) =
18, but it doesn't help with other apps.
Does anybody have any idea about what is causing this behaviour and
how can I fix it?
Tobia
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