[Fontforge-users] Modifying a font

[Michael A. P. <mp...@ma...>]

Some fonts ship with each member of the family reporting itself as its
own family - which really annoys me.

So I am fixing them using a process like this:

fontforge -c 'Open($1); Generate($2)' \
LucidaMonoEFOP-Bold.otf LucidaMonoEFOP-Bold.sfd

perl -pe 's/FamilyName \(LucidaMonoEFOP\-Bold\)/FamilyName \(Lucida Mono
EF\)/' LucidaMonoEFOP-Bold.sfd.orig \
|perl -pe 's/Weight \(Regular\)/Weight \(Bold\)/' \
> LucidaMonoEFOP-Bold.sfd

fontforge -c 'Open($1); Generate($2)' \
LucidaMonoEFOP-${face}.sfd LucidaMonoEFOP-${face}.otf

-=-
That seems to work - but is there anything in particular I should watch
out for? Furthermore, is that process lossless with respect to the
quality of the font? Seems to be on screen, but it would be nice to know
for sure.

Thanks, Michael