On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Considering that a 5x8 bitmap font (which is unlikely to even have > enough pixels to produce even 65536 unique glyphs) would take 5.6MB for > your (17*65536), I wouldn't want to see what an algorithmic description > would require. > > Looking at some of my collection of fonts, TTF and some PS, seem to be > running around 100kB per font, and those fonts likely have around 128-192 > glyphs. > > For 1114112 glyphs (17*65536) at, say 164 glyphs pre 100kB gives 680MB > per FONT. Assume the standards: normal, bold, italic, bold-italic -- one is > now up to 2.7GB per typeface. 5.4GB to support just one serif and one sans > serif typeface.
Most fonts these days are vector, not bitmap, but a 5x8 bitmap has forty pixels, any of which can be either on or off - that gives roughly twice as much data space as the 21-bit Unicode spec. Plenty of room for 17*65536 unique glyphs. But you're right that it'd then take ~5-6MB to store that, minimum. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
