Here at IDRSolutions, we like our screens BIG. Part of the reason for that is that the sort of work we do tends to need you to see many different pieces of information at once. A prime example of this is working on our TrueType Hinting engine, which we previously discussed on this blog. TrueType…
A while back we put a lot of effort into implementing some of the hinting technology in the TrueType specification. This system effectively uses small programs in a stack based environment to manipulate the set of points which define the contours of a glyph. Up until recently, some of the instructions available in the language…
The quality of documentation and tools in an area of software development has an incredible impact on us developers. They both influence how fast we can work, the quality of the software we write, and even how we feel about our work. I’ve recently been working on adding some support for hinting into our TrueType…
It is one of these features which is broken but it is now too late to fix. Inside a PDF file, all text data is stored as a binary number and this value is decoded into the actual glyph value (ie the value 65 is converted into the text value ‘A’). Because the PDF file…
