Re: [Fontforge-devel] Generate fonts from SFDs to TTFs with scripts: with traditional kern table.

[Khaled H. <kha...@eg...>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:13:32PM +1000, Caius 'kaio' Chance wrote:
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> Hi,
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> As $subject. I updated the packaging method of Liberation Fonts which
> SRPM of liberation-fonts contain SFDs and it generates TTFs when the
> SRPM is built into RPM.
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> The generation from SFDs to TTFs are done with fontforge scripts that
> with simple two lines Open() and Generate(). However, for backward
> compatibility I want to include traditional kern table.
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> I was taught to tick the checkbox 'old style kern' in options window
> when I click 'generate font' in fontforge UI. Would this step could be
> also implemented in fontforge scripts so I could automate this?

It is already, check generate flags in the scripting documentation
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-alpha.html#G

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer