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sherman · 12-21-2019, 05:23 AM

Yeah, thought about it. Might think about it for a quick font fix-up tool. Problem is, it is a much lower level tool, and doesn't have any inbuilt ways to do stuff like auto hinting, auto kerning, glyph weight changing that fontforge provides out of the box.

Not that you can't do any of that with fonttools, but you have to figure out how to do that yourself, and that's waaaaaaay over my head...

EDIT: Looking at the fontTools API reference, removing hints from glyphs looks like it might be fairly easy to do.

Maybe I could create a script that uses fontTools to fix names, PANOSE, fsSelection, and optionally strip hints. No promises though.

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sherman Guru Posts: 876 Karma: 2676800 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Taranaki - NZ Device: Kobo Aura H2O, Kobo Forma	Yeah, thought about it. Might think about it for a quick font fix-up tool. Problem is, it is a much lower level tool, and doesn't have any inbuilt ways to do stuff like auto hinting, auto kerning, glyph weight changing that fontforge provides out of the box. Not that you can't do any of that with fonttools, but you have to figure out how to do that yourself, and that's waaaaaaay over my head... EDIT: Looking at the fontTools API reference, removing hints from glyphs looks like it might be fairly easy to do. Maybe I could create a script that uses fontTools to fix names, PANOSE, fsSelection, and optionally strip hints. No promises though. Last edited by sherman; 12-21-2019 at 05:36 AM.