On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:07 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici(a)gmail.com>:
>> Does anyone know if they
>> have their own production tools?
>
> They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab)
> but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think.
Yes, the SIL designers and script engineers intend to publish more of
the various tools used in the font production workflow (but it takes
time and effort!). For example
http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils
BTW can the AL1 licensing problem of Font::TTF be fixed before spot
loses patience with us font people?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Artistic1Removal
Victor Gaultney may cover this aspect during his talk at the next
AtypI
conference:
http://atypi.org/05_Petersburg/20_main_program/view_presentation_html?pre...
Nice pointer, thanks!
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Nicolas Mailhot