MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Looking for a tool to help strip fonts of uncessary characters

eriĉjo · 06-28-2010, 08:44 PM

Yes, thank you, this script helped a lot. In fact a script to process the font automatically might be nice, but FontForge already allows you to select font glyphs by unicode number, so I've decided to do this one by hand. If I end up having to do this quite often, I'll create a script and share it.

Keeping a record for myself and for those who come after me doing the same thing:

Downloaded just about every epub reader for the Mac trying to "cut-n-paste" the entire book so that I could feed it into the above script. Only "Stanza" was able to adequately perform this function. ADE, Calibre, and FBreader were all completely unsuitable to the task. Various word processors also failed to perserve the Esperanto characters. The Mac Terminal with vi worked fine though.

06-28-2010, 08:44 PM	#3
eriĉjo Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Sony PRS 505	Yes, thank you, this script helped a lot. In fact a script to process the font automatically might be nice, but FontForge already allows you to select font glyphs by unicode number, so I've decided to do this one by hand. If I end up having to do this quite often, I'll create a script and share it. Keeping a record for myself and for those who come after me doing the same thing: Downloaded just about every epub reader for the Mac trying to "cut-n-paste" the entire book so that I could feed it into the above script. Only "Stanza" was able to adequately perform this function. ADE, Calibre, and FBreader were all completely unsuitable to the task. Various word processors also failed to perserve the Esperanto characters. The Mac Terminal with vi worked fine though. Last edited by eriĉjo; 06-28-2010 at 09:15 PM.