<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- Created with AOLpress/2.0 --> <!-- AP: Created on: 7-Jul-2001 --> <!-- AP: Last modified: 2-Jan-2005 --> <TITLE>Possible future improvements to FontForge</TITLE> <LINK REL="icon" href="fftype16.png"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="FontForge.css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id="in"> <H2> Currently under development </H2> <UL> <LI> Moving to the gtk-2 widget set. <UL> <LI> Don't expect anything soon. I don't find this an interesting task. One widget set is much like another, such a conversion is a lot of work and doesn't involve any functional improvement. (Indeed I am currently ignoring this because gdk is <EM>less</EM> capable of dealing with images than my own drawing system -- at least in the ways that matter to me, and I don't want to rewrite all my image code) </UL> <LI> A command that will allow you to (but this has been listed here for a couple of years so don't expect anything much) <UL> <LI> Make a character/font bolder <LI> Extend or Condense a character/font <LI> Change the X-Height of a font <LI> Regularize stem widths </UL> </UL> <H2> Musings </H2> <UL> <LI> multiple baseline support <LI> Vertical metrics in embedded ttf bitmaps <LI> Better import of xfig files (a real X-Spline -> Bézier spline converter) <LI> Mechanism for creating fonts with multiple instances of the same character, each slightly different, coupled with a postscript routine which will for each character in a string, pick a random version of that character to display. An attempt to yield a slight non-uniformity to the font which may make its output look more interesting. <LI> A better way of aligning things. (need some form of grouping that is actually useful) </UL> <P> Last updated: 12-Feb-2004 <P> </DIV> </BODY></HTML>