Sam Howard

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/samh/ Sam is a developer at IDRsolutions who specialises in font rendering and conversion. He's also enjoyed working with SVG, Java 3D, Java FX and Swing.

 



21 Stories by Sam Howard

3 Reasons why we don’t convert Type 1 glyphs to TrueType

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...
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Profiling Vs. Sampling in Java’s VisualVM

Most people will already be familiar with profiling, but you might be less aware of the different types of profilers on offer. A recent...
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Top 5 Free Hosted Version Control Sites Compared

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,...
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What is font hinting? The basics explained.

In the early days of fonts, each glyph was stored as a bitmap at a range of sizes. Drawing it was a simple case...
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PDF to HTML5 conversion – Extracting PDF text and mapping glyphs

Text works differently in PDFs and in HTML files, which can make it a surprisingly complex problem to get great output during PDF to...
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Three Font terminology complications explained

Everyone knows a bit about fonts, but understanding them in more detail is a bit of a niche subject. Niche subjects tend to come...
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