On 6 December 2013 00:01, pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx <pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 5 December 2013 17:59, Paul Flo Williams <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> 1. FontTools/TTX, which can convert a font into XML and back again. >> However, Petr reports that it currently crashes on Open Sans[3], and we >> have no smart way of verifying that the "To XML, patch, compile to TTF" >> cycle produces a font that performs at least as well as the original. Why is this? You can ttx both files and diff them :) Crash could be because of the old version. Behdad is now actively maintaining a fork of the project - https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/ - which may not crash. > I have done same in Liberation fonts 2.00.1 to fix Monospace bit. Works > quite well. [x] :) >> The problem of embedding flags is now being addressed by the packaging of >> a simple tool called "tt > In Fedora we do recommend to build fonts from sources as patching source > .sfd is an efficient method. But we get number of upstream releases only > with source so dont have option. Having script to fix ttf metadata is > definitely going to help to number of projects. In https://github.com/xen/fontbakery/ the developer is landing a commit in the next few days to build fonts from TTX source in addition to the current UFO workflow; and another developer, Franke Trampe, is working a lot on FontForge's UFO support this month. -- Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
