Announcing Volto : open source .vtp to.fea converter

John Hudson

We're pleased to anmounce the release of Volto, an open source project to convert MS VOLT .vtp sources to AFDKO .fea syntax. Volto was developed for us by Khaled Ghetas. See documentation for details and known issues.

https://github.com/TiroTypeworks/Volto

Sami Artur Mandelbaum

Hi John,
I didn't get install Volto.
I have fonttols installed, python 2.7.16 and 3.7.3 installed and pip installed.
I have try installing Volto like it's written but nothing really happened.
I use windows 10 64.
Any help is welcome.
Thank's

Khaled Hosny

You probably need git, can you try “pip install https://github.com/TiroTypeworks/Volto/archive/master.zip” instead? (Volto requires Python 3, so pip should be that of Python 3).

Sami Artur Mandelbaum

O Will try It.
Thank You Khaled.

Sami Artur Mandelbaum

Hi Khaled,
I tried your way (and many others) but did not work.
When I type "volto pathmyfont.vtp pathmyfont.fea" I did not receive any error but nothing really happens.
I have installed volto typing: pip install g:\fonttolls\fonttools-3.40.0\volto-master.zip.
Again, no error and nothing happens.
I have extracted volto-master.zip and executed the setup.py using python 3. No error.
I am using python 3.7.3 64bits.
Please, Do You have any other suggestion?
Thank's
Sami

Khaled Hosny

No idea, sorry. pip should print something either an error or a message indicating installation happened, not showing anything at all is rather odd.

Sami Artur Mandelbaum

Hi Khaled, I got it!
I have uninstaled all versions of python and reinstalled the 3.7.3.
Thank You again.

John Hudson

I found I needed to use

pip<b>3</b> install --user --upgrade git+https://github.com/TiroTypeworks/Volto

to get the intall to work