List OT features of a font with script/app?
Thomas Schostok
Posts: 14
Hello,
anyone knows a simple app or script (OS X) that list all OT features (e.g. “dlig”) of a .OTF file?
I like to test around 50 fonts of which features are implemented and I don’t like to import all the fonts into Fontlab.
Thanks,
Thomas
anyone knows a simple app or script (OS X) that list all OT features (e.g. “dlig”) of a .OTF file?
I like to test around 50 fonts of which features are implemented and I don’t like to import all the fonts into Fontlab.
Thanks,
Thomas
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Thanks Frank, that’s exactly what I was looking for! You are my first class hero!
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you could write a script that uses fonttools to read the feature tags.1
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Hi Georg,
‘you could write a script that uses fonttools to read the feature tags. ’
How much sense does that make now Thomas' problem seems to be conveniently solved? Reminds me a bit of a student who stated after I demonstrated the subsetting of OT Layout features in the DTL/URW++ tools (since 2002), that she would wait with applying until this functionality would become available in her preferred font editor.0 -
How much sense does that make now Thomas' problem seems to be conveniently solved?
OTM is a wonderful application, but a decent coder could write a shell script that analyzes all 50 fonts and spit out a report. If Thomas has to do this sort of thing on a regular basis a script would be a good use of his time.1 -
Agreed. a Python script using fonttools would be very simple.0
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I’d use LCDF's
otfinfo
tool. Here showing the features of thelatn
script (the tool’s default):
And here explicitly asking for the
~$ otfinfo -f amiri-regular.ttf
calt Contextual Alternates
ccmp Glyph Composition/Decomposition
fina Terminal Forms
init Initial Forms
kern Kerning
liga Standard Ligatures
mark Mark Positioning
medi Medial Forms
pnum Proportional Figures
rlig Required Ligatures
rtlm Right-to-left Mirrored Forms
ss01 Stylistic Set 1
ss02 Stylistic Set 2
ss04 Stylistic Set 4
ss05 Stylistic Set 5arab
script:
~$ otfinfo -f --script=arab amiri-regular.ttf
calt Contextual Alternates
ccmp Glyph Composition/Decomposition
curs Cursive Positioning
fina Terminal Forms
init Initial Forms
kern Kerning
liga Standard Ligatures
locl Localized Forms
mark Mark Positioning
medi Medial Forms
mkmk Mark to Mark Positioning
pnum Proportional Figures
rlig Required Ligatures
rtlm Right-to-left Mirrored Forms
ss01 Stylistic Set 1
ss02 Stylistic Set 2
ss03 Stylistic Set 3
ss04 Stylistic Set 4
ss05 Stylistic Set 50 -
Well, I used OTM for the job, but after 20 fonts it got quite repetitive. It’s not the fault of OTM, of course, but I believe it really would be easier to have a script of some sort.
otfinfo is a good tip, thanks Khaled. I will try that out, but I believe to install it via homebrew & co. is not the easiest way for me (form the way of understanding of how to do).
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Of course, a nice extra of OTM is that one can see what the features actually do.
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