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Read various discussions about FontLab 7, FontLab Pad, FontLab VI, FontLab Studio 5, Fontographer, TypeTool, TransType, Fonts, OpenType, TrueType, and more. Further, talk about the technical structure of font formats, font format specifications, and low-level tools.
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1d ago
I just tried exported the fonts using FL8.2 0.8620 Mac Intel and everything exported correctly ..read more
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1d ago
I'm exporting a large family of fonts (18 ) I select WOFF as the export option but the resulting WOFF files contain zero bytes. The TTF and WOFF2 files that are also exported with this option appear to be correct.
This occurs using FL 8.3.0.8766 Mac In ..read more
FontLab Forum
2d ago
Hi there,
When exporting fonts with export profile that has "remove overlaps" set to true, it sometimes still does not remove overlap on all glyphs, often on just few or none at all. I usually have to reopen FontLab multiple times, switch export from i ..read more
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2d ago
Quote from: Alex Petrov (FontLab) on 2024-04-03, 05:34
[font=IBM Plex Serif, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI S ..read more
FontLab Forum
2d ago
Release notes for FontLab 8.2. already stated:
"Remove Transformation and Remove Filters. Discard the live filters or transformations, and convert the contours into their basic forms.ยป
Is there a way to remove filters in batch, quickly, a ..read more
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2d ago
Quote from: tiro_hudson on 2024-04-10, 08:25
I mean that I am doing different kinds of tasks now, and not experiencing as many crashes as I did when I was kerning. So something in the kerning actions was triggering more ..read more
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2d ago
Quote from: Alex Petrov (FontLab) on 2024-04-03, 05:34
[font=IBM Plex Serif, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI S ..read more
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5d ago
Let me be clear that this answer is just meant to illustrate the basic process of contextual substitution in connected scripts. In a real-world font, you will have to first build a system of connection points for glyph pairs, then build glyph classes o ..read more
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5d ago
Hi Freems,
to simplify things a little, when a glyph run like /be/ is processed by an OpenType layout engine, the first glyph is processed first, then the second. So to connect /b/ with /e/, you need a contextual rule for /b/ with the lookahead sequenc ..read more