Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: How to install

[vernon adams]

I've carried out some simple tests using ttfautohint with the Ubuntu Font on Win XP & Win7, Chrome12 & Firefox4.

The screenshots are at http://code.newtypography.co.uk/

Looks good so far, but i shall test more fonts, particularly a serif and a bold display face. I chose Ubuntu Font as i know it's well documented that Dalton Maag put a lot of professional hours into it's truetype instructions.

thanks Werner!

vern

On 17 Jun 2011, at 08:31, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

but i am embarrassed to admit that i have built the library but have

not found how to use the 'autohint' function :) a quick howto,

please!

One important thing I've forgotten to mention: You need the current
git version of FreeType to test the ttfautohint library; the
`configure' test for 2.4.4 in ttfautohint is a fake currently since
2.4.5 hasn't been released yet.  I know, I know, I should have done
this already weeks ago :-|

In case you are running a Unix box (this includes recent Macs), please
use the attached script which downloads and builds ttfautohint and
FreeType in a subdirectory called `ttfautohint-build'.  For
convenience, the created `ttfautohint' binary is static and not
dependent on other libraries.  After successful compilation, you can
find it in `ttfautohint-build/out/bin', and you can copy it to any
other directory.

If you run the script another time, it will update the git
repositories instead of downloading, then do a complete build again.

Calling `ttfautohint' is simple:

 ttfautohint <in-file> <out-file>

for example

 ttfautohint Bevan.ttf Bevan-TA.ttf

As mentioned earlier, there aren't options right now.  Note that the
program runs quite slow; adding a progress indicator is on my TODO
list also.