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Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 20:25:07 +0200 (CEST) |
> I’m among those developers “craving” for a tool to create test
> fonts, specifically to write unit tests for fontTools.
Good to know :-)
> I checkout out the 010 Editor and the “TTFTemplate.bt" you linked
> to. It doesn’t look much different from what the sstruct.py and
> sfnt.py modules already do within fontTools. For each sfnt table,
> fontTools provides a template for (un)packing binary data (to)from
> predefined types.
OK.
> I guess the reason why you believe the test font generator “must be
> on a far lower level than ttx”, is that the latter is meant to
> produce “valid” fonts, so it doesn’t expose all the intricacies of
> the sfnt format which we would like to test (this incidentally is
> what makes it a “textual, human-readable representation of a
> font”…).
Exactly. If there is a possibility to intentionally bypass the
validity somehow, this would be the way to go.
> I’ll try to see if I can come up with some solution built on top of
> fontTools, and let you know how it goes.
Thanks in advance!
Werner
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, (continued)
Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/06/04
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Sascha Brawer, 2015/06/04
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Behdad Esfahbod, 2015/06/04
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Sascha Brawer, 2015/06/04
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Behdad Esfahbod, 2015/06/04
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/06/06
Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Dave Crossland, 2015/06/03
Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working, Cosimo Lupo, 2015/06/06
- Re: [ft-devel] GX support now working,
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