Xgridfit

A programming language for you to use for your TrueType fonts.
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  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • Peter Baker
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 605 KB

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Xgridfit Description

Xgridfit is a high-level, XML-based language specially designed to help you with gridfitting, or "hinting," TrueType fonts. It aims to provide these advantages over the manual instructing of glyphs: Replace the cryptic "mnemonics" of the TrueType language with descriptive instruction names; Provide for the naming of points, control values, variables, functions and function parameters; Provide macro capability for the easy and efficient handling of similar visual features of glyphs; Provide high-level instructions (e.g. "diagonal-stem") to supplement the primitive instructions of TrueType; Provide high-level programming constructs; Manage the stack behind the scenes; Manage reference points and zone pointers behind the scenes; Provide methods and tools for managing instructions in large font projects; Edit and augment existing instructions in fonts; Support the FontForge auto-instructor and TrueType debugger. Provide a simple method for adding new instructions to fonts that already contain them. Basically it conceals the assembly language-like character of the TrueType instruction set behind a friendly façade and provides many of the conveniences of a high-level programming language.


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