Phf fonts

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Please, what is structure of phf fonts ?

I would like to improve slovak regional characters in helvetica font,
since
the original ones are too ugly to use. Moreover some of them are not
present
in helvetica and mapped from symbols.

Andy
andy@microstep-mis.sk

2

Hi Andy,

These are QNX format fonts and you would have to go through your sales
rep to get an NDA to be able to get these files.

Regards
Brenda

andy wrote:

Please, what is structure of phf fonts ?

I would like to improve slovak regional characters in helvetica font,
since
the original ones are too ugly to use. Moreover some of them are not
present
in helvetica and mapped from symbols.

Andy
andy@microstep-mis.sk

3

Great. I will find the format more quickly by trials as through
reprezentatives . If QSSL is not able to edit the fonts correctly, I think
it would help them to announce your font format on you web site. At least.
Better it would be to realease font editor together with PhAB.

dissatisfy Andy

GUI Group wrote:

Hi Andy,

These are QNX format fonts and you would have to go through your sales
rep to get an NDA to be able to get these files.

Regards
Brenda

andy wrote:

Please, what is structure of phf fonts ?

I would like to improve slovak regional characters in helvetica font,
since
the original ones are too ugly to use. Moreover some of them are not
present
in helvetica and mapped from symbols.

Andy
andy@microstep-mis.sk

4

Hi Brenda !

As I expected, it was not so difficult to reveal the
phf files structure (Has it reason to keep secret
something what everybody can find after several
trials?) But back to problem:

I have found that the main problem is that some
of our characters e.g. Ccaron and ccaron are not
in the helv font at all. They are subtituted from
antoher font and they are put on another base line,
so text seems inregular.

Now I need the following advice:

Imagine that I launch slovak keyboard, then PhAB, in
which I create text field. I set its font to helv14
and then I start type slovak characters, e.g. Ccaron
and ccaron. How does photon find that Ccaron is not
contained in helvetica font and how it find another
font for substitution ?

Thank you for any advice

Best regards,

Andy

PS. Please take to regard that customer does not see beautiful
internal archtecture of OS, but ugly letters on desktop.



andy wrote:

Great. I will find the format more quickly by trials as through
reprezentatives . If QSSL is not able to edit the fonts correctly, I think
it would help them to announce your font format on you web site. At least.
Better it would be to realease font editor together with PhAB.

dissatisfy Andy

GUI Group wrote:

Hi Andy,

These are QNX format fonts and you would have to go through your sales
rep to get an NDA to be able to get these files.

Regards
Brenda

andy wrote:

Please, what is structure of phf fonts ?

I would like to improve slovak regional characters in helvetica font,
since
the original ones are too ugly to use. Moreover some of them are not
present
in helvetica and mapped from symbols.

Andy
andy@microstep-mis.sk

5

Hi Andy

I have spoken with one of the developers and here is some
information that might help.

andy wrote:

Hi Brenda !

As I expected, it was not so difficult to reveal the
phf files structure (Has it reason to keep secret
something what everybody can find after several
trials?) But back to problem:

I have found that the main problem is that some
of our characters e.g. Ccaron and ccaron are not
in the helv font at all. They are subtituted from
antoher font and they are put on another base line,
so text seems inregular.

This is the extension system. Under Rtp, this issue is
more exact. With scalable fonts, it can be difficult to
match baselines between different fonts, since each rendered glyph
is a “little program” which is executed by the byte-code interpreter.
These “programs” do not always stay within the restrictions specified
by the globals rules of that font, at all sizes, and dpis.

Now I need the following advice:

Imagine that I launch slovak keyboard, then PhAB, in
which I create text field. I set its font to helv14
and then I start type slovak characters, e.g. Ccaron
and ccaron. How does photon find that Ccaron is not
contained in helvetica font and how it find another
font for substitution ?

You can read the documentation on ‘phfont’, and specifically the fontmap
file.

Hope this helps
Regards
Brenda

Thank you for any advice

Best regards,

Andy

PS. Please take to regard that customer does not see beautiful
internal archtecture of OS, but ugly letters on desktop.



andy wrote:


Great. I will find the format more quickly by trials as through
reprezentatives . If QSSL is not able to edit the fonts correctly, I think
it would help them to announce your font format on you web site. At least.
Better it would be to realease font editor together with PhAB.

dissatisfy Andy

GUI Group wrote:


Hi Andy,

These are QNX format fonts and you would have to go through your sales
rep to get an NDA to be able to get these files.

Regards
Brenda

andy wrote:


Please, what is structure of phf fonts ?

I would like to improve slovak regional characters in helvetica font,
since
the original ones are too ugly to use. Moreover some of them are not
present
in helvetica and mapped from symbols.

Andy
andy@microstep-mis.sk
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