Re: Adobe FDK under wine? Or similar FOSS tool?
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
Editing OpenType feature tables with fontforge is a big PITA. Adding
a locl table to Linux Libertine, see
[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/Ro_fonts#Linux_Libertine],
took me three hours (testing included). And that just for the regular
font. Parts of the table are (or rather should be) common between
files, but fontforge doesn't support that, so I have to start over
for the bold and italic!
I guess you just need to be used to how FontForge handles OpenType? I
don't think it looks that hard to do. It used to be much harder as well
before George completely redid OpenType handling :-).
But true, you need to be familiar with lookup tables, while I guess you
just want to be able to select a glyph, and click some buttons saying:
I want feature locl for languages latn{ROM} and latn{MOL} and
substitute it with glyph X. And actually, it already works like that,
if you made the lookups and lookup subtables. It only makes sense to
put these together in tables like that. If you have a list of glyphs
you substitute in certain languages and suddenly think you need one
other language you don't have to change all previous lookups, just
change the language list in the data.
btw, there is a Copy lookup data entry in the FontForge edit menu
that could ease the pain having to redo everything for each font.
Greetings
Ben
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Adobe FDK under wine? Or similar FOSS tool?
Editing OpenType feature tables with fontforge is a big PITA. Adding a locl table to Linux Libertine, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/Ro_fonts#Linux_Libertine], took me three hours (testing included). And that just for the regular font. Parts of the table are (or rather should be) common between files, but fontforge doesn't support that, so I have to start over for the bold and italic! This presentation [http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/atypi2006/slye_lisbon-05.pdf] should give you an idea what the right tool for the job is like. The good news is that Adobe FDK is free (as in beer). The bad news is that Adobe makes only Win32 and OS X versions of it. Does anyone here have any experience with it? Does it work in wine? Also, does anyone know any FOSS tool that uses Adobe feature files or similar text based files (please not that thingie that converts fonts to XML). Fontforge is supposed to be able to import fea files, but currently it's broken (does nothing); maintainers have been notified... -- Vasile ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: Adobe FDK under wine? Or similar FOSS tool?
P.S.: here is a sample feature file for Adobe Minion Pro (2004) made public by Adobe: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?233@@.3bb58628!enclosure=.3bb58629 On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Editing OpenType feature tables with fontforge is a big PITA. Adding a locl table to Linux Libertine, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/Ro_fonts#Linux_Libertine], took me three hours (testing included). And that just for the regular font. Parts of the table are (or rather should be) common between files, but fontforge doesn't support that, so I have to start over for the bold and italic! This presentation [http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/atypi2006/slye_lisbon-05.pdf] should give you an idea what the right tool for the job is like. The good news is that Adobe FDK is free (as in beer). The bad news is that Adobe makes only Win32 and OS X versions of it. Does anyone here have any experience with it? Does it work in wine? Also, does anyone know any FOSS tool that uses Adobe feature files or similar text based files (please not that thingie that converts fonts to XML). Fontforge is supposed to be able to import fea files, but currently it's broken (does nothing); maintainers have been notified... -- Vasile ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
