Re: font editor?

Sweet.  That's definately an improvement.

  - a

Andrew Kohlsmith <[email protected]> writes:
>> 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.
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