The shape of a character as rendered (e.g in a font)
Questions tagged [glyph]
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how to change glyph height without changing the font-size?
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for text elements that are adjacent to icon elements, the glyph height is not aligned with the icon height. the text elements are styled by CSS with font-size: 20px; and have consistent width for all their instances.
here's an…
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UTF-8: how many bytes are used by languages to represent a visible character?
Does there exist a table or something similar which shows how many bytes different languages need on average to represent a visible character (glyph) when the encoding is utf8?
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Extracting glyph-path information from ttf files
I'm trying to figure out a way to extract the information encoded in ttf files. namely: The char-to-glyph table and the individual glyph path data.
Does anyone have a good reference explaining the ttf file structure, or some other solution?
Keep in…
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Determining exact glyph height in specified font
I have searched a lot and tried much but I can not find the proper solution.
I wonder is there any approach for determining exact glyph height in specified font?
I mean here when I want to determine the height of DOT glyph I should receive small…
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Icon font - icon height bigger than expected
I'm using an icon font generated by fontastic.me in my project. However, all icons are a little bit higher as expected.
Snippet here:
.icon-camera {
font-size: 40px;
background: #ff0000;
}
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Get single glyph metrics (.net)
How can I get full information about single glyph from choosen font (for example Arial -> symbol "A")
This picture describe what variables I need to find:
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Why is my QML CJK text being rendered with corrupt glyphs?
My application allows the user to switch languages on the fly. I'm seeing that about 10% of the time the user switches to Chinese or Japanese, the glyphs for the UI text are being rendered improperly.
This application is running under Linux on an…
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Calculate the exact size of a font glyph
I need a way to find the exact size and position of a glyph relative to its bounding box.
We're using D3.js to create an SVG with a heading, a smaller byline and a short body text. Pretty much this:
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum dolor
Lorem ipsum dolor…
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Outline of a text as single line vector path
For an application I need to draw text/glyphs as a vector based path. Using GDI+ GraphicsPath and Graphics.DrawPath or WPF FormattedText and Geometry works fine and I get the output as shown in the first picture. But is it somehow possible to get…
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How to get UIBezierpath using Glyph in iOS SDK
How can we get UIBezierPath from a character using Glyph in iOS SDK.
I had gone through this, but It is showing double line and I want only single line..
As I am new in this research..Please help me to solve this problem.. I do not want any code but…
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Memory leak in Font Glyph / UIWebView
I just found that when UIwebview get dealloc-ed, most of the memory it used doesn't get totally recycled. After doing some profile, i found most of the still alive memory are Font glyph cache(the problem is much worse if you are open a chinese web…
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What do we use glyph for?
What is a glyph and what do we use it for especially in context of silverlight and xaml?
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how to add unicode in truetype0font on pdfbox 2.0.0?
I've been using the PDFBOX version 2.0.0 in a Java project to convert pdfs to text.
several of my pdfs are missing the ToUnicode method, so they come out in Gibberish while I export them.
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Horizontal alignment of "large" labels is offset when using adj argument in text
In text, the argument adj allows adjustment of the labels with respect to x and y. For example, adj values of (0, 1) means left-top alignment, i.e. the left, top corner of the label is placed at the given x, y coordinate.
This works fine with the…
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Is it possible to display an alternate character with CSS?
I am using a web font that has several different, "M's" to choose from, in the glyphs panel. The default "M" that keeps being displayed in my website is hideous. I would like to use a better looking "M" from one of the font's alternate character…
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