Re: [Freebangfont-devel] encouraging discovery about ttx

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Friday 07 February 2003 07:33 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> Deepayan,
>
> ttx has an option to dump out all the tables in different files, and if you
> substitue the glyph shape file with a different shape file (from some other
> font) then it will generate a new OT font. This is of course ignoring the
> GPOS issue, and some constraint (i.e. same number of glyphs in both fonts
> at the same location, etc).  Earlier I my proposal was based on this.
>
> As you are playing with ttx, maybe you can do a small test to verify this?

Yes, that works.

> Also, when you say ttx fails to regenerate from a .ttx file, does the
> original ttf file contained volt's extra tables? In that case you may want
> to try with a font which is "shipped" through volt. As far as I remember,
> it worked for me.

No, the GDEF table seems to be the culprit. Try with Mukti, it doesn't have 
VOLT tables, but still crashes. Unfortunately, without the GDEF table, the 
fonts don't seem to work on Windows :(, so we'll have to use VOLT for that.