Sam Howard
• https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/samh/ Sam has been with the company since 2009 and is a specialist in font rendering and conversion. With over 20 years of Java experience, he has contributed extensively to BuildVu and JPedal. Sam is a musician and enjoys crafting a fine Espresso Martini.
21 Stories by Sam Howard
As we’ve discussed before, PDF files can contain a whole bunch of different fonts, but in the end most of them come down to two... Most people will already be familiar with profiling, but you might be less aware of the different types of profilers on offer. A recent... Recently, some friends and I decided to get together and make a good old-fashioned text adventure game. We could have used an existing engine,... TL;DR What it is: A process (also called grid fitting) that uses instructions to align scalable font outlines to a display’s pixel grid. Why... Introduction Text works differently in PDFs and in HTML files, which can make it a surprisingly complex problem to get great output during PDF... Everyone knows a bit about fonts, but understanding them in more detail is a bit of a niche subject. Niche subjects tend to come...