On 2/26/13 4:50 AM, "Vincent Hennebert" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 26/02/13 02:01, Alex Harui wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Apache Flex project is looking for code that will generate CFF format
>> from TTF and OTF files. The Adobe versions of Flex shipped with Adobe-owned
>> libraries that did this conversion. Apache Flex needs to re-create this
>> functionality in the open.
>
> Just to make sure we put the same meaning to the acronym, by CFF you
> mean Compact Font Format?
Yup.
>
> Then I¹m not too sure what you want to achieve exactly. An OpenType font
> can have PostScript outlines (CFF). Do you want to extract the content
> of the CFF table for use by some legacy application that doesn¹t
> understand OTF but does understand CFF? Or do you want to convert fonts
> with TrueType outlines (quadratic Bézier curves) into PostScript
> outlines (cubic Bézier curves)?
The latter. I will be writing code to convert the outlines. Not looking
forward to it at all.
>
> In the former case, any OTF parser would provide a good start (Batik,
> FOP or FontBox ‹although I suspect FontBox might be easier). In the
> latter case, this is much more involved and would probably be out of
> scope for Batik or FOP, that are more concerned with extracting metrics
> from the font rather than playing with the actual glyph data.
OK, thanks for making that distinction. I won't worry to much about
possible contributions outside Apache Flex when I get going on this.
Thanks,
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
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