2009/5/11 Schrijver <e...@authoritism.net>: >>> >>> I had thought of scripting Fontforge but it seemed a bit heavyweight for >>> hosted solutions, >> >> Um, really? Where is the weight? > > It is a compiled C binary, no, with dependencies and everything?
FontForge is famous for having optional, and even at that, very few, dependencies. > So maybe not necessarily heavyweight, but just not as portable as, say, a > python script by itself? Standard C is just as portable than Python, if not more so. You need to recompile C, but then you need to install Python too. > I could imagine writing something like a plugin for something like Launchpad > would be hindered by that. That's Canonical's problem. When you can `aptitude install launchpad` then you can `aptitude install fontforge` just as easily, but when Canonical hosts a launchpad instance at large scale, they will have all kinds of problems small installations don't have to worry about. > Technical question: > > Fontforge can also generate OTF’s, no? Because you give an example with a > TTF, but than you can’t get the contextual alternates etc IIRC Yes, it can, I just use TTF as an example. (And I use TTF at the moment in my work because I'm not doing any OT features and TTFs work more widely as web fonts.)