RE: [CSS21] os/2 and hhea tables

Thanks Gérard, I'll be digging into this as my time permits, but just wanted to thank you kindly for the information. Looks to be just what I was after. Roger> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:13:16 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [CSS21] os/2 and hhea tables
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> Le Sam 23 juin 2012 11:58, "Gérard Talbot" a écrit :
> >
> > Le Sam 23 juin 2012 8:55, Roger Baker a écrit :
> >>
> >> I'm trying to better understand/predict font-size versus content area
> >> for
> >> various fonts,
> 
> [snippe]
> 
> >> I'm usually pretty good at "Googling", but in this case I haven't been
> >> able to locate OS/2 and HHEA tables for particular fonts.
> 
> Definitions in OS/2 tables:
> 
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index_os2.html
> 
> 
> > Try to find the software ttfdump.exe
> > I got it from
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.aspx
> 
> 
> download link - fonttools.exe - save the file to your hard disk
> file details - fonttools.exe - 773KB self extracting archive file
> 
> So, ttfdump.exe should be extractable from fonttools.exe .
> 
> Right now, I do not know of a Linux equivalent for such program.
> 
> Gérard
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