font glyphs

is there a set of glyphs that I could
analyze(to get the number of pixels that
make up an ascii character) under unix or
linux? I want to take a set of glyphs that
represent ascii characters and convert them
to ppm files for further analysis.

conrad <conrad@lawyer.com> wrote:
: is there a set of glyphs that I could
: analyze(to get the number of pixels that
: make up an ascii character) under unix or
: linux? I want to take a set of glyphs that
: represent ascii characters and convert them
: to ppm files for further analysis.

Take any X window font in bdf format.

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conrad wrote:

> is there a set of glyphs that I could
> analyze(to get the number of pixels that
> make up an ascii character) under unix or
> linux? I want to take a set of glyphs that
> represent ascii characters and convert them
> to ppm files for further analysis.

It depends on the graphics system not the OS.  Are we talking about X
or PostScript or what?  Whatever the answer is there is probably a
better group to post the question to.  For example, if you are talking
about X then comp.windows.x is probably the place to ask.

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Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.

Hi,

Have a look at the freetype library.

http://www.freetype.org/

You can get the bitmap for a character. Works with true type fonts.

Johan

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> is there a set of glyphs that I could
> analyze(to get the number of pixels that
> make up an ascii character) under unix or
> linux? I want to take a set of glyphs that
> represent ascii characters and convert them
> to ppm files for further analysis.