Then we’ll go through the settings within the Transform dialogue box. Next we’ll select the glyphs we want to scale. How this Tutorial is Organized We’ll start with a brief definitions section. However, some of the options may reduce the font quality. How to Scale Glyphs in Fontforge This tutorial will show you how to scale glyphs in Fontforge. In the top menu, select File->Generate Fonts, then Options and make sure that PS Glyph Names is unchecked:įollowing the three steps above, we reduce the file size of simhei.ttf from 9.57MB to 1.98MB.įurther minor size reduction should be possible by using Elements->Font Info. The final step is to remove the Glyphs names which takes a lot of space and are of no use for embedded systems. Then on the top menu click on CID->Flatten to return to normal font type. Select Delete to remove the extraneous glyphs. In the top menu in Fontforge, select CID->Convert to CID, then browse to get Adobe-GB1-0.cidmap and click OK. We just need to edit the cidmap Adobe-GB1-4.cidmap in Fontforge directory and keep only lines for CID numbers from 0 to 7716 (This is compatible with GB2318 – Cf paragraph 2. In our example (simhei.ttf), which can be obtained from Microsoft Windows font directory, if we want to keep the glyphs for simplified Chinese, we can choose to use Adobe-GB1-0. Please check for further information on CJK/CID file for your language. We can use Fontforge with cidmap (Fontforge proprietary) and/or Cmap (from adobe) to perform this task.
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