Regarding the printing of open type fonts, this may be done simplistically with my paps program, that I just updated. See:

http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/

I have also worked on turning paps into a library which means that soon any pango-based program (gtk in practice) can easily add postscript output.

You may also use any type of font within inkscape, which since version 0.42 works just fine with Hebrew (except nikkud). It also supports printing, since it like paps turn all fonts into postscript primitives.

Maxim, btw and totally unrelated, I'm curious... What is your work flow when you design a font? Do you start with some characteristic characters and then do copy, paste and modify to create the rest? What if you are then not happy with some global property like e.g. the ratio of the vertical to the horizontal stem thickness, or the "spits" at the end of the stems? Does it mean that you have to start from the beginning? Perhaps you could add some design description to the culmus site. :-)

Regards, Dov

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:47:09PM +0200, Maxim Iorsh wrote:

Hello all,

I’m still alive. Besides that, a new font named “Anka” is available for download from the “Fancy fonts” section of the Culmus site (http://culmus.sourceforge.net/).

Unlike in past releases, this time I chose to publish in addition the OpenType version of the font. Unfortunately, most Linux applications don’t support OpenType, or support it only partially:

1. Gedit and Kword can both display it, but fail to print.
2. OO and Abiword on Linux don’t even recognize it, while Abiword on Windows displays and prints it just fine, so I guess OO+Windows will work too.
3. MS Word supports the OpenType version too, except for WordArt.

In fact, in Windows you even get some rudimentary kerning, which is supposed to make font look a little better in print. In an unrelated issue, in Windows the font is listed under its Hebrew name as "àð÷ä", and can be found at the very bottom of the list of fonts.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Maxim.