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Glyphnames after generating the fonts are not as per AGL

Open snehakore opened this issue 11 years ago • 2 comments

Actual :
After generating the font, the glyph namings in ttf file are not as per AGL

Expected :
It should be as per AGL.

snehakore avatar Feb 12 '14 12:02 snehakore

This one is really tricky issue we are facing from the start of lohit2 project. At one end we want user friendly, easily to understand open type tables and at other end we want to follow Adobe glyph names which says it should be in uniXXXX format.

Presently we are only following syntax from AGL, so if we can fix generate.pe script so while generating it will convert user friendly names into AGL names that is unltimate solution.

pravins avatar Feb 13 '14 07:02 pravins

Further update on this. I found FDK has nice workflow for avoiding this. One can write rules for font in feature file in user friendly names. Use Glyph Order and Alias DB to rename and re-order. Not sure whether we are actually going to implement it. But lets look forward to it.

I remember sneha modified generate.pe script for making ttf fonts name in AGL format but it was giving some errors while building ttf with fontforge. I will review it again and see if its working on latest fontforge release.

pravins avatar Feb 02 '15 09:02 pravins