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MFEK / sfdLib.py

An SFD to UFO converter
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Please explain why this exists #3

Closed davelab6 closed 7 years ago

davelab6 commented 7 years ago

FontForge's native UFO export passes all sorts of round-trip tests.

Are there any specific issues with the native export that led you to develop this? :)

cc @frank-trampe

khaledhosny commented 7 years ago

FontForge does not export UFO kerning, for one (last I checked).

Also hacking < 300 lines of Python code is much easier than hacking FontForge’s > 4000 lines of C code that do basically the same thing or even less.

Even if I started parsing SFD files myself, it will still be much shorter than FontForge’s UFO code alone.