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

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

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:45:19AM +1000, Caius 'kaio' Chance wrote:
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> Khaled Hosny さんは書きました:
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:13:32PM +1000, Caius 'kaio' Chance wrote:
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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
> 
> Could you kindly give me some idea which version of the fontforge
> started to support this (fmflags)? I tried on 20090224 but it seems did
> not functioning.
> 
> FYI, my scripts as follows:
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> $ cat sfd2ttf.pe
> Print( "    ")
> Print( "Generating ttf from sfd sources...")
> Print( "----------------------------------")
> Open($1)
> Generate($1:r + ".ttf" ,"fmflags&0x800")
> Print( "    ")

It should be:
Generate($1:r + ".ttf", "", 0x800)

The second parameter is "bitmaptype", "fmflags" should be the third and
it isn't a string.
I think "fmflags&0xXXX" in the documentation means you have to sum the
flags together (so, if you want to set 0x800 and 0x200, "fmflags" would
be the some of both.) Since I don't know what these numbers mean, I just
use python interpreter as a calculator (0x800+0x200 is 2560, which will
generate 'kern' and 'TeX' tables).

Regards,
 Khaled


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