[ncl-talk] Install custom font

[David Hutchinson]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for the information and the attached notes. I will have a look through it and if I’m feeling especially adventurous I might dabble with it, but as you say, it does look pretty tricky.

Regards,
David

On 16 Aug 2018, at 17:50, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu<mailto:haley at ucar.edu>> wrote:

Hi David,

Unfortunately, it is a tedious process to add a new font to an existing font table.

We've had questions about this through the years, and here's what one of our original developers (now retired) responded with:


A complete description of the character (fontcap) tables,
including the character encodings, can be found at:

http://ncarg.ucar.edu/supplements/cgm_supp/cgm_supp.html

If you are wanting simply to add a character to an existing fontcap
defining filled fonts, then you would want to read the
"Character outline class" in the above.

Warning: you will have to be a particularly patient person to wade through
this to be successful.

As an exercise awhile back, this same developer added an umlaut "a" to a font table to see what it took, and created a step-by-step document which I've attached here. I also attached the resultant TIFF file of the character he added. He said this process took him 2.5 hours for one character, but that included the time it took to write the document.

Maybe this will be of help to someone. I would love to try this procedure myself in my copious spare time.  :-)

--Mary


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:30 AM, David Hutchinson <david.hutchinson at geo.su.se<mailto:david.hutchinson at geo.su.se>> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to install a custom font that is not pre-installed in the NCL font tables. Is it possible to do this using an .otf or .ttf file?
Kind Regards,
David

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