[Bf-committers] builtin bfont.ttf upgrade

[Matt Ebb]

Sure, it's at http://mke3.net/rt/bfont.ttf . The source is http:// 
mke3.net/rt/DejaVuSans-Lite.sfd

cheers

Matt



On 31/07/2006, at 20:14 PM, Jiří Hnídek wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> it seems, that it works here (I can't see all characters). Can you
> upload font file too?
>
> Jiri
>
> Matt Ebb napsal(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jiri (and another person on the forums) have previously noted that  
>> the
>> default included interface TTF font file doesn't include very many
>> characters, and doesn't cover their language's character sets.  
>> This is a
>> problem for Jiri, who's translating Blender into Czech.
>>
>> The builtin bfont.ttf is Vera Sans, an 'open source' font donated by
>> Bitstream a while ago, but it doesn't support much more than the  
>> basic
>> Latin alphabet. There's a variant of Vera now, called DejaVu Sans,  
>> which
>> has been extended to include many more characters, and it would be  
>> good
>> to use this as the bfont.ttf instead. The only problem is that  
>> DejaVu is
>> (to the project's credit) very complete, and quite large. The  
>> straight
>> DejaVu Sans bfont.ttf.c source file after running datatoc is quite  
>> huge
>> - about 1.8MB.
>>
>> So I opened up the source file in FontForge and trimmed it down a  
>> bit to
>> make a kind of DejaVu 'lite'. I got rid of these character sets:
>> - IPA/Phonetic extensions
>> - Arabic (I don't think blender's text system supports right-to-left
>> anyway, and there is no arabic translation)
>> - Greek extended (ancient greek)
>> - dingbats and obscure mathematical symbols
>> - Braille
>>
>> It's not about 40% of the original size, but it still contains  
>> enough to
>> support most of our included translations and future ones too
>> - All basic and extended Latin ( covering most eastern European
>> languages, and also Vietnamese)
>> - Cyrillic
>> - Greek
>>
>> I've put the source file online here: http://mke3.net/rt/ 
>> bfont.ttf.c.zip
>> . If people who use non-english translations in Blender could put  
>> it in
>> their source/blender/src dir, compile and test, that would be  
>> great. If
>> it works well, and I haven't gone too far in my editing, I can  
>> commit it.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
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