Re: font editor?

Andrew Kohlsmith <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:21:33 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.core
Organization Benshaw Canada
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Anybody know how to edit fonts?  I'd like to drop all the
> non-ISO-Latin-1 glyphs from the Vera ttf's we use.  It'll cut down the
> file size by a huge amount.  Non-roman alphabet users can always
> download a unicode font on the fly.

Well I downloaded FontForge and played around a little.  

gzip -9'ing the orignal Vera.ttf gives me a 40173 byte file.  gzip -9'ing my 
modified Vera ttf gives me a 26984 byte file.  I basically selected all 
non-latin chars and hit delete to clear them.  I don't know all that much 
about fonts and this was just a first attempt, but the fonts don't seem all 
that big to begin with...

-A.