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robotools / extractor

Tools for extracting data from font binaries into UFO objects.
MIT License
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there seems to be a new tool for vfb to ufo conversion #37

Closed typemytype closed 1 month ago

typemytype commented 3 years ago

https://pypi.org/project/vfb2ufo3/

jenskutilek commented 3 years ago

It seems to run inside FontLab or at least require a working FontLab 5 installation. Or is there a way to import FL outside of actual FontLab?

benkiel commented 3 years ago

Not that I know of offhand

jenskutilek commented 10 months ago

Meanwhile there is indeed a new tool, vfb3ufo from https://github.com/LucasFonts/vfbLib :)

typemytype commented 10 months ago

Would be more then happy with a PR for Xmas!! :)

jenskutilek commented 2 months ago

Just found this old issue ... vfbLib can extract a UFO on it's own, would you still like to see this functionality also provided by extractor?

benkiel commented 2 months ago

Seeing that vfb3ufo is doing a much better job of VFB to UFO, maybe we should either take out VFB support or have a dependency on vfb3ufo for VFB support (https://github.com/robotools/extractor/pull/68#discussion_r1747623887)

jenskutilek commented 1 month ago

The comparison may be a bit unfair, as both tools have different goals.

But my guess is that VFB is becoming ever more irrelevant, so maybe support could be removed from extractor without any negative effects. vfb3ufo is there for the few who need it.

benkiel commented 1 month ago

Yes, more irrelevant, but I hesitate to take it out as folks may depend on it. @typemytype ?

jenskutilek commented 1 month ago

It's pretty easy to swap vfb2ufo with vfbLib: #70 :)

rimas-kudelis commented 1 month ago

Should this be closed in favor of #70?

benkiel commented 1 month ago

Yes, closing.