Is it possible to display Klingon text (it doesn't have to be editable) on iOS?
If yes, what's the recommended way?
Somebody has come up with a "standard" mapping of Klingon to the private usage area of Unicode. All you need to do is find a font for Klingon (or use bitmaps) and away you go. There will be some work needed to install your font onto the device.
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I am trying to make a GUI like a iPad/iPhone, so to be able to make it look good, of course you need to use a font like Apple. I have downloaded it - MyriadPro-Semibold and put it in the control panel font's folder, but when selecting a font, it is not there. I found this online:
Label1.Font = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.MyriadPro-Semibold)
I suspect it is C (minus the ";" at the end of the line), but I don't know. Should I have to put the font in the resources or what?
Thanks in advance.
Myriad Pro is an OpenType font. Only WPF supports such fonts, Winforms requires a TrueType font.
Just one hint, when you copy Apple fonts then be sure to not be successful. Apple has a lot of lawyers and isn't afraid to use them. Especially when the font is used for their corporate logo.
I'm using a CC-BY FontAwesome typeface for icons on my Twitter Bootstrap-driven website. Now I want to use it in an image editor for a prototype of another website. But it does not work. I cannot use its webfont-TTF with my image editing application. How can I convert it to a normal font?
Please dont give me links to free-/shareware closed-source utilites. I want to know, why does this happening and implement my own script which would "fix" this font.
FontAwesome should work out of the box. Heres how to use it:
Download FontAwesome. Then open fonts/FontAwesome.otf and install it (either with fontbook on osx or by adding it to your fonts folder on windows).
Use the Cheatsheet to actually use specific icons. Find the icon you want there, select the icon and copy it.
Switch to your image editor, create a text item, set the font to FontAwesome, and paste the symbol you copied.
I assume you are talking about http://fontawesome.io/ .
If so there is nothing wrong with the TTF version of this font and no reason to convert it. I have tested the font on linux by dropping the .ttf file in /usr/share/fonts/ and it is useable in LibreOffice, Gimp and Terminal.
You problem is almost certainly one of:
The process you used to install the font
You aren't entering the correct Unicode characters or your image editor doesn't support Unicode.
However you failed to provide enough details. You haven't even defined what you mean by "it does not work". Please update your question with details like the process you used, a link to the actual font you downloaded and the operating system and image editor you're using.
In case you're still looking for a solution: the easy way is to convert the included SVG font to usable TrueType or OpenType, using e.g. FontForge or an online service.
AFAIK SVG fonts have no DRM flags, unlike TrueType.
I'm trying to make each letter a "square" essentially, so each letter is no more tall than it is wide, in vb.net. Is this possible? If so, how? I can't seem to find anything, and I've been searching hard.
Thanks for the help!
Why dont you just use a fixed size font ? Or create your own font ?
The Windows API has a function called SetCurrentConsoleFontEx which you could pinvoke. It accepts a width and height, font etc. Depending on how it handles these you may also need to make and add a 'square font' to the registry list of allowed fonts (example of adding a new font to the console here.)
I'm looking to log all the text that gets displayed on my OS X 10.6 machine. e.g. all webpage text (no matter the browser), PDF text (not necessarily the entire PDF, but at very least all the text that was actually viewed), anything I type into emacs, any email I write.
I've looked at the Accessibility API, but it seems to be more about describing function than content - and in any case relies on application developers to have implemented accessibility objects. Is there something lower-level? perhaps I can watch everything that goes through the OS font renderer?
After searching for a while my impression is that Apple doesn't explicitly make this possible, I'm open to any hackish suggestions you might have.
You'd have to get deep inside the Window Server to have any hope of getting all the text that was written to the screen. I suppose you could patch it yourself, but it's hard to see how without source. What you want has obvious nefarious uses so there's hardly going to be a public API for it.
Just a shot in the dark, but what about turning on Screen Sharing on the 'target' Mac and pointing a modified VNC client at it? I don't know whether text is sent as text over VNC or not, but if it was that might be one place to start. It's effectively giving you a Window Server equivalent that you control.
Well basically I'm finishing school in mid December so I'm just brushing up my resume and I'm wondering if there's a way to use custom fonts (in this case Calibri and Cambria) in a PDF file and make them render correctly on all computers.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I'm using MS Word 2007, but am open to suggestions
PDFs don't store text and fonts like other documents, they actually convert the font to vectors, that way no matter what font you use, the document displays exactly as expected. This is why searching for text inside the PDF is such a problem for 3rd party PDF Readers and why even Adobe themselves use to distribute 2 versions of Acrobat (one with text search, one without).
Another thing to keep in mind is, PDF isn't pixel exact, it's ratio exact. PDF readers generally do not use a 100% zoom level, instead most people read them at "fit to screen" or "fit to page". I point this out because I'm guessing the reason you are trying to use those new Vista/Office 2007 fonts is because of their LCD subpixel support (improves readability on LCD screens). This feature will not translate into the PDF, since the letter becomes a vector, subpixel information is lost, and even if it wasn't, becomes useless because the vector will be sized to something other than you intended at view time.
The PDF format is capable of embedding fonts, if the font has been marked embeddable by its creator. You'll have to check the software that's creating your PDF to see if it has the capability and how to enable it.
theoretically speaking, on technical side, embedding/not embedding ability, regarding the fonts, is settled with a special flag in font file (ttf or opentype or type1)
you can view this special embedding flag with any font editor program (I recommend
FontCreator (by High-logic)
http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html
with a free trial fully operative and without limitations
you can also change embedding/not embedding flag, but legally speaking, for the 99% of fonts commercially distributed, this breaks the license of font