Decompiling OT PS Fonts Prior to Generation from FLAB?

Stuart Sandler
Stuart Sandler Posts: 400
edited August 2012 in Type Design Technique & Theory
Is this still required? Seems like an old long ago thing . . .

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  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,041
    Has someone written a script that can decompose, remove overlaps, and set path direction 100% reliably?
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,779
    Decompiling? Do you mean decomposing composites? I saw something recently saying it was no longer necessary to decompose composite glyphs in OT PS fonts. Can't remember where. Definitely need to remove overlaps, which would apply to composites as well I presume.
  • Stuart Sandler
    Stuart Sandler Posts: 400
    Yes, decomposing composite glyphs . . . I didn't know if an 'official' word came down from on high but this is what I was curious about.
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,779
    I think it was someone from Adobe who said it (or rather wrote it). Wish I could remember where I saw it.
  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,337
    I always do it, because strange things sometimes happen when overlaps are removed, which might occur later on.
  • Matthew Butterick
    Matthew Butterick Posts: 143
    There's a preference setting that will do this automatically when you generate:

    FL preferences > Generating OpenType & TrueType > OpenType PS (.otf) > Decompose all composites
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  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,114
    I have a little FontLab action set for OT-PS that removes all hints, decomposes all composites, and auto-hints. I run it on a temporary file as part of font generation.

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