FontForge

FontForge is a free and open source font editor for all major platforms. This account announces new features as they land in developer builds and new releases.

[FontForge @FontForge]

Need help with FontForge? Write our mailing list! https://t.co/5SI28aGCfG

Of course, you may also tweet 😀

Have a reproducible bug, not a question? Report it! https://t.co/eTzQ4BE8PK

Either way, please always include your OS, FontForge version, and an SFD file if applicable.

[Modular Font Editor K (MFEK) 🔣 @MFEKglif]

The MFEK Foundation is now maintaining sfdLib, a @FontForge library primarily for converting SFD fonts to UFO (but which is easily extended to support non-UFO formats) originally by @KhaledGhetas (thank you!).

@fr_brennan just made its first PyPI release: https://t.co/DM7MRYnCf1

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@andrew_shadura @dubovsky_jan Yes and you could check them into Git so even if FontForge wrongly deletes them you can reclaim them.

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@Cbrnex 🪤

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If you work a lot with SFD files, there is now a tested Python library for encoding/decoding the quoted strings in them.

sfdutf7·py — https://t.co/htbR8wsvZW

PyPI: https://t.co/Keg4GS1bjp

~ @fr_brennan

[Fredrick Brennan (@[email protected]) 🦝🔣📗 @fr_brennan]

This is the most horrifying code I've ever written.

Thanks for the IMAPClient implementation @mjs0 lol

https://t.co/szHE6H4RJM

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@aliifarm ��

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@fnxweb @hisdeedsaredust 🫤

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@boot_xperia 🙂

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@boot_xperia ☹️

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@20thJeffrey Unlikely.

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@fefodois "perfeito" ... no. Not even a little!

How about "sometimes adequate"? That seems about right.

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@RatanKarna (Oh, also, this is @fr_brennan, this is a shared account. I wasn't answering the one who first answered you. Hi.)

If my idea to use dev2{dflt} for 'pres' 19 does not work you're probably going to want to make a GitHub issue, there are limits to what can be solved via Twitter. 🙇

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@RatanKarna I also don't understand why you only specified non-dflt languages for 'pres' lookup 19.

Stick to {dflt} unless you've a good reason, there's no reason you'd ever need a set including {dflt} as {dflt} is the set of all languages for the script.

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③ Maybe someday ufo2ft will support it so `fontmake` can just build a font that has SVG data in its .glif files.

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By "SVG font", FontForge means the outmoded SVG 1.1 standard, *not* SVG-in-OpenType, a type of OpenType font which contains SVG files for its glyphs, which it cannot yet create.

And, even its SVG 1.1 support has issues, cf. e.g. https://t.co/KsOC3skiuz.

Workarounds below.

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Workarounds for SVG-in-OT:

① You can try a script called SVGinOTlayersCompositor·py by @glukfonts: https://t.co/w08tL0yVCZ

② You can use @FontTools ttLib class `table_S_V_G_`, passing `<svgDoc>` elements to `font["SVG"].fromXML("svgDoc", …)` as a post-processing step.

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If you've ever tried to use FontForge in Wine you may have found you had no keyboard input.

A workaround is now available: https://t.co/8ze2OtTMSZ

One shouldn't need FontForge in Wine, this is mostly of interest to developers or those wanting to use Windows-only Python code.