Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : trufont Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Adrien Tétar <adri-from...@hotmail.fr> * URL : https://trufont.github.io/ * License : GPLv3 or LGPLv2.1 Programming Lang: Python Description : cross-platform ufo3 font editor
TruFont is a cross-platform font editor designed to work with the UFO font interchange format (http://www.unifiedfontobject.org/). in caeozd0yu6sfgh1izaopxsf0w_nhppn94kgme8dbrdri7ryo...@mail.gmail.com, Dave Crossland writes: > I thought I'd announce here that Adrien Tétar - one of the most active > FontForge developers in the last year or so - has started a new and clean > UFOv3 font editor project that I see as a replacement to FontForge. > > There's a longer discussion about the history and context for this here: > > > http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1165/introducing-trufont-world-s-first-native-ufo3-font-editor-fully-cross-platform > > > I invite all FontForge users and developers to join the TruFont project and > help make a transition. However, TruFont is still in an early stage, so for > type designers dedicated to using libre software, using both editors will > be needed for a while... :) Packaging TruFont for debian may need the creation/inclusion of several other python3 font-related libraries, as found in requirements.txt of the source code, which currently contains: git+https://github.com/behdad/fonttools.git#egg=fonttools git+https://github.com/trufont/defcon.git@python3-ufo3#egg=defcon git+https://github.com/trufont/robofab.git@python3-ufo3#egg=robofab git+https://github.com/trufont/ufo2fdk.git@python3-ufo3#egg=ufo2fdk PyInstaller==3.0 Regards, --dkg
