Re: [ft] Pruning fonts

[Johan]

Thanks Dave!
I have looked in to the FontForge project and it do look very good.
The only problem with that is the enviromet. The script has to be
runnable on a lot of different plattforms. There is no guarantee of
the existence of Cygwin, python etc. The only certain thing is Java,
that has to be installed on all platforms, hence I would prefer a
javabased solution.

Would it be a lot of work to implement this myself using the ttf spec?
Is there OS dependencies (like Microsoft not conforming to the spec)?

Regards
Johan

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dave Crossland <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/1/21 Johan <address@hidden>:
>> The program will have to do the following in essence:
>> 1. Open a ttf file
>> 2. Remove all unused characters.
>> 3. Save to a new ttf file.
>>
>> The program should be platform independent and scriptable since it
>> will run in build scrips on different platforms. I would prefer to use
>> Java.
>>
>> Dose any of you out there have any knowledge of such a product?
>
> FontForge is what you want and has extensive Python scripting.
>