sfd2ttf - modify buglist entry

[theun.wine.mail at planet.nl]

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: Markus Amsler <markus.amsler at oribi.org>
Datum: zaterdag, november 25, 2006 11:05 pm
Onderwerp: Re: sfd2ttf

> theun.wine.mail at planet.nl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >>From the buglist I gather that the fontforge dependency is still 
> an issue.
> > 
> > I've taken a look at the sources and I think a can strip it down to
> > about 5 to 10 pages of code without a major rewrite. 
> > 
> > If this is acceptable, I'd be happy to spend my time.
> >
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> The problem is TTF generation. There's no library and it's not 
> trivial. 
> With 5 to 10 pages its impossible to generate a valid, non-empty 
> TTF file.
> 
> I tried it once with dropping all unnecesary features (Apple 
> Advanced 
> Typography, Codpages, ...) and managed to get it down to 500 KB. 
> Without 
> Code obfuscation or comment dropping my guessed minimum was around 
> 350 
> KB which would be around 150-200 pages of code. And we agreed 
> that's too 
> much, so I stopped my efforts.
> You can download my latest version from [1]. There was also a 
> sfd2ttf 
> thread some time ago.
> 
> So sfd2ttf is not feasible, and AJ wonn't commit TTF files so I 
> think we 
> could resolve this bug as WONTFIX.
> 
> Markus
> 
> [1] http://oribi.org/download/sfd2ttf.tar.gz
> 
>
Obviously, you've already put quite a bit of effort in sfd2ttf and the
result is there.
Since it also clear that the sfd2ttf entry in the buglist in far from up
to date, I think it's a good idea to modify the entry to reflect the
current status.

Hopefully, this will prevent other potential contributers from wasting
their time.

Thanks,

Theun van der Veen.