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Re: BDF to Apple bitmap-only dfont, wrong line height

by Tobia Conforto :: Rate this Message:

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George Williams wrote:
> If the bounding box is too big, then saving to a dfont will call a  
> routine to crop any extraneous whitespace. I can't imagine what a  
> manual touch would do that this would not. However... Doing a  
> "Select All" in the fontview and then Transform -> Move 0,0 [OK]  
> should mark every bitmap glyph as touched.

Alas, I was wrong. This changes nothing.
Thanks for looking into it though.

So then... what other software exists that can write Apple bitmap  
fonts?  Is there an Apple-sanctioned utility or library to do it?  Or  
is Apple reserving the right to create bitmap fonts?  I guess I'll ask  
on an Apple mailing list.


Tobia

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