I work with FontLabs Studio along with VOLT and my colleague uses Glyphs. I'm mostly working on OT Tables that I've worked on in VOLT. So I have a TTF file with features and need a way to export the fea feature file only so he can import that into Glyphs for final output (OTF). Here are ways I've tried
1. Import TTF into FLS5 and export fea -> GSUB works. GPOS throws errors. Probably FLS5 didn't decompile the table well
2. Import TTF into FontForge and export fea -> GSUB works. GPOS doesn't because FF is somehow now exporting the anchor definitions.
Is there a way to get a workable fea file from VOLT's vtl file or the XML dump of the GPOS table from ttx (fonttools)?
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In the meantime, you could also experiment with opening the compiled TTF in DTL OTMaster and then use the export .fea option. I've not tested this workflow, but its another option along the lines of those you've already tried, and might produce better results.
But it might be faster to just rebuild the anchors in Glyphs directly as it is one of the strong advantages of Glyphs over Volt.
Thank you! I had tried FLVI's preview some 4-5 months back but it seriously messed up one font and crashed twice leaving a corrupt vfb file. Fortunately it is far more stable and saved the day! Decompiles the binary tables much better, just what I needed!
We have two masters and we are extrapolating the regular and semibold. Is there a way to export all 4 into separate UFO files so I can use FLVI to import them, merge the fea file with each and export otf?
About the few import.
Can you explain the problems with the problems in more detail:
"Custom naming" is checked. But it's still not exporting as intended. uniXXXX names complicate matters in that if I decide to look at the OTcode later I can't identify which characters the code is referring to and I have to look back and forth. I don't know who would prefer 'u005F' over 'underscore'!
Can I send you the .glyphs and .fea file in message for you to look at?
I've only played with the interface for only a while now, but if it does well what it advertises, I might as well get this one.