I am making an Open-source SFNT parser/generator in C, called otfcc.

Belleve Invis
Belleve Invis Posts: 269
in Type Design Software
Github: https://github.com/caryll/otfcc

Currently the parsing part is almost complete, and it is much faster than `ttx`: it takes only 10 seconds to parse and json-ize a 26MB Chinese ttf while `ttx` takes about 10 minutes.

PRs are welcome :)

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  • Adam Twardoch
    Adam Twardoch Posts: 515
    Does this have any relation with https://sourceforge.net/adobe/tintin/code/HEAD/tree/?
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    Adam Twardoch said:
    Does this have any relation with https://sourceforge.net/adobe/tintin/code/HEAD/tree/?
    No.
  • Adam Twardoch
    Adam Twardoch Posts: 515
    This looks quite useful. I noticed, however, that it does not mention the CFF table at all, only glyf. Am I right to assume that otfcc currently is limited to TruType-based OpenType only? 
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    @Adam Twardoch 
    CFF will be support later, but currently I am focusing on TTF.
  • Adam Twardoch
    Adam Twardoch Posts: 515
    cool!
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    Phase 0.5 is complete :)
    (The picture is a convergence test of a large Chinese font.)
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    I've started making features support.

    @Adam Twardoch
    @Georg Seifert
    @Dave Crossland

    Are there any good open-source TTF-outlined fonts with many features? Especially uncommon lookup types (like cursive attachment or reverse chaining).
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,190
    Are there any good open-source TTF-outlined fonts with many features? Especially uncommon lookup types (like cursive attachment or reverse chaining).

    Reverse chaining basically exists specifically to handle the nastaliq case, and related styles of Arabic. Similarly, you'll find cursive attachment implemented most frequently in cascading Arabic fonts. Take a look at Noto Nastaliq Urdu, which is probably the best OpenType implementation of nastaliq (which is to say it fails less than the others, not that it succeeds).
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    John Hudson said:
    Are there any good open-source TTF-outlined fonts with many features? Especially uncommon lookup types (like cursive attachment or reverse chaining).

    Reverse chaining basically exists specifically to handle the nastaliq case, and related styles of Arabic. Similarly, you'll find cursive attachment implemented most frequently in cascading Arabic fonts. Take a look at Noto Nastaliq Urdu, which is probably the best OpenType implementation of nastaliq (which is to say it fails less than the others, not that it succeeds).
    Noto Nastaliq Urdu does not contain reverse chaining.
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,190
    Noto Nastaliq Urdu does not contain reverse chaining.

    Interesting. I'd assumed it would.

    I checked Microsoft's Urdu Typesetting font, and it does contain GSUB lookup type 8 substitutions.

    J.
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    John Hudson said:
    Noto Nastaliq Urdu does not contain reverse chaining.

    Interesting. I'd assumed it would.

    I checked Microsoft's Urdu Typesetting font, and it does contain GSUB lookup type 8 substitutions.

    J.

    Thanks.
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    CFF (almost) done.
    (Currently in the cff branch, i am fine tuning it.)

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