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Add WARN level check for KERN table

Open davelab6 opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Observed behaviour

Ideally all our TTFs should have KERN tables, so that they typeset with kerning in older systems that don't use GPOS kerning - sadly this is still all too common.

MSFV already has a check for this, but I want something more verbose and explanatory for humans than that check result.

Before shipping that check, we should make a script that generates KERN tables from GPOS kerning in order to give people a way to solve this.

davelab6 avatar Jun 29 '18 19:06 davelab6

http://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/old-style-kern-table-export/3322/7 explains how to get a kern table in glyphsapp and thus what an upstream GA check is for this. However, it needs some additional filtering work in the build script.

davelab6 avatar Jul 10 '18 15:07 davelab6