Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Likhan

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Friday 08 November 2002 04:25 am, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:27, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:15 am, Anirban Mitra wrote:
> > > I would like inform some thing.
> > >  You have said that your font is not recognised as
> > > open type font in Windows 2000. A font is considered
> > > open type in WINNT5.x only when it is digitally signed
> > > by opentype font signing tool (available from
> > > microsoft typography site
> > > www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/dsig/dsig.htm)
> > > However it should work without the signature also. (at
> > > least code2000 and Raghindi works)
> >
> > this actually didn't solve my problem -- which was not that it's not
> > recognized as open type (I don't really care about that), but that it's
> > not recognized as a bengali font (In IE, Tools -> Internet Options ->
> > Fonts -> Bengali). AkaashNormal is, for example.
>
> I'm not very sure - but this may work
> While generating ttf fonts, select the "Hints" options - that may help

Nope, doesn't help. I have a suspicion that it has something to do with recent 
versions of Pfaedit, because it seemed to work OK a while back.

Deepayan