[softwarelist] Re: Fonts
- From: Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:12:24 +0100
In message <66ECDE6C-550D-40CC-935A-97E38F74D6B5@xxxxxxxx>
Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 30 Dec 2009, at 18:33, David Pilling wrote:
>> In message <50d1e14186dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes
>> <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>> Of course I now have a 39 quid piece of software and no use for it, as all
>>> the fonts I wanted to convert were Ornamental types.
>>
>> That is a pity. I wonder if the maximum number of path elements that
>> the Acorn font manager can handle was increased in later versions of
>> RISC OS, I can imagine that as they moved to Unicode support the
>> characters got more complex.
> Apparently, according to which version of RO you have, the system will
> display 256 or 512 subpaths ... tho' I have no more information than
> that.
Ah, so the limit is on the number of subpaths, not on the number of
path elements per subpath? That is an important difference. If the
limit really is on the number of subpaths, then David's idea of
smoothing the outlines to use fewer path segments will not make any
difference. The number of required subpaths is determined by the
design of the ornaments - basically, the number of white holes in the
enclosing black shape.
Martin
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