RFC: sfd2ttf
Mike McCormack
mike at codeweavers.com
Fri Apr 28 01:11:07 CDT 2006
Markus Amsler wrote:
> Here's a first version of an sfd2ttf tool based on fontforge-20051205.
> You can dwonload it from [1].
Great work!
> It consists of 5 files (with Makefile) and has a size of 500K. There's
> still some dead code lying around, I think I can bring it down to
> 300K-400K. Is this acceptable?
I think it should be, and will help you to bring it in line with
Alexandre's wishes where possible. He's on holiday in Greece at the
moment, so you might have a to wait a bit for his comments.
> TTF generation was a bit harder. I decided to output TrueType, with
> bitmap tables from OpenType. The others ttf variations (full OpenType or
> even aat (Apple Advanced Typography)) are not supported, as it would
> make the tool a lot bigger (factor 2-5 or so) and i believe it's not
> needed (right?).
>
> I'm really no font expert, so any comment is welcome.
Seems reasonable, but I'm not a font expert either.
Mike
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