Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating WOFF files -- sub-setting larger fonts
Fontforge has an option to export the fonts to WOFF format. Thanks, Fontforge worked even better than the online converter - usable WOFF, and the size is 50kb instead of 54kb :-) [1] http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/wiki/MicroTypeExpress As I understood, sfntly is just the library, so do you use some utility of your own? Is it available somewhere? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating WOFF files -- sub-setting larger fonts
By the way, I've just tried to use ttf2woff from fontutils to convert Ubuntu TTF font to WOFF format for use in one of my projects. And the resulting WOFF produced by this utility is not usable in any Linux browsers (tried Firefox, Chrome, Opera). Don't know if it works on Windows. And at the same time some random online font converter produced normal WOFF from the same TTF. I've reported this bug at CPAN: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=83377 The files are attached for reference - source TTF, WOFF created by ttf2woff (ubuntu-bad.woff) and normal WOFF created by online converter (ubuntu-good.woff).___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating WOFF files -- sub-setting larger fonts
For the font repository we maintain as part of UniversalLanguageSelector, we use Google sfntly[1] to convert fonts to WOFF and EOT with maximum compression. We also use MicroType express compression[2] for compressing eot to reduce the size as possible as we can. Fontforge has an option to export the fonts to WOFF format. [1] http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/wiki/MicroTypeExpress Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating WOFF files -- sub-setting larger fonts
By the way, I've just tried to use ttf2woff from fontutils to convert Ubuntu TTF font to WOFF format for use in one of my projects. And the resulting WOFF produced by this utility is not usable in any Linux browsers (tried Firefox, Chrome, Opera). Don't know if it works on Windows. And at the same time some random online font converter produced normal WOFF from the same TTF. I've reported this bug at CPAN: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=83377 Links to font files, for the reference: * Source TTF: http://vmx.yourcmc.ru/var/ttf2woff-bug/ubuntu.ttf * Bad WOFF (by ttf2woff): http://vmx.yourcmc.ru/var/ttf2woff-bug/ubuntu-bad.woff * Good WOFF (by online converter): http://vmx.yourcmc.ru/var/ttf2woff-bug/ubuntu-good.woff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating WOFF files -- sub-setting larger fonts
Thanks for sharing, Mark. SIL fontutils[1] has lot of handy tools. [1] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=fontutils Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Creating WOFF files -- sub-setting larger fonts
Santhosh pointed out that size was very important[1] when creating WOFF files for use on Wikimedia sites. When I asked for help creating a subset of FreeSerif on the freefonts-bugs[2], Steve White said that was "one thing on the big To Do list".[3] In an amazing display of the power of open source, Bob Hallissy from SIL produced ttfsubset[4]. Perhaps the i18n team would find this of a use when they need to produce WOFF fonts. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066531.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-bugs/2013-02/msg2.html [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-bugs/2013-02/msg4.html [4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-bugs/2013-02/msg5.html -- http://hexmode.com/ There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
