I'm curious about which font software is least destructive when regenerating fonts after making minor changes which don't affect the actual outline, hinting, GSUB or GPOS data (e.g. changes to the preferred family/subfamily names, weight and widthClass, style linkages, etc.)
DTL OTMaster is the obvious answer, but I find that somewhat inconvenient when dealing with a large font family. I'm more interested in a comparison between the following:
– FontLab Studio 5
- FontLab 7
- TransType
- Glyphs
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That said, for the kinds of changes you want to do, probably TransType or TTX are your best options.
You are pretty technically savvy, so TTX is probably best. For a less-technically-oriented user, for those particular needs, I might suggest TransType.
It’s a command line interface for FontTools, so you don’t have to dump tables, edit and then merge. Doesn’t matter if you are working with 1, 10 or 100 files, they will be processed all in one pass.
It still lacks documentation, and the readme isn’t up to date, but is simple enough and has a decent online help.
If you write me what you want to do I can write a short tutorial.
Is there a way to change in batch the OS/2 table version number from all fonts in a directory?
I have many old Truetype fonts with OS/2 table number "0" and I want to change to "3" but it's very annoying to change one by one.
Please, any help would be great.
Sami
But changing the version, without adding missing data, may yield fonts that are not spec-compliant.
Changing the version number of the OS/2 table from 0 to 3 won’t add the missing Unicode codepage data. Plus, some OS/2 version 0 fonts (compliant with Apple TrueType but not Microsoft) may also be missing the usWin and sTypo vertical metrics.
Doesn't seem an easy thing to do, unless you know the values of those fields so to pass them as parameters. I ignore if there's a way to recalculate values as ulCodePageRange1 and ulCodePageRange1.
Anyway:
Thank You for the help @Cesare G. !
When I change the number of the OS/2 table in DTL OtMaster, OTMaster creates all these fields, but I need to do one by one font.
The main reason I would like to do it is I use a font manager font called Typograph 5.2.3.
This program is the best program to see many fonts on the screen at the same time, but it doesn't get shown correctly fonts with OS/2 table number "0".
This program does not have updates since 2018.
Now I know why it doesn't.
Regards
Sami
Thank you for your tip, but how many fonts can I open in OTM at the same time?
I hope you are well and fully recovered.
Best regards
Sami
Regarding my health, I am slowly but surely recovering from my heart attack and bypass surgery, but it will be a while before I can do the marathon font editing again, I reckon.
By the way, it might be better to be a little cautious about exposing e-mail addresses in this way, regardless of whether they work or not. Can a moderator delete the e-mail address assigned to me here? Thanks in advance.
I'm really sorry, because your email is public on other websites, so I made it public here without your permission. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Please help delete the email, thank you.
Andr é g. Isaak, I'm sorry to have made other remarks on your subject.
That said, FM2 is now ready for release and we have addressed a lot of issues (perhaps some you have encountered) over the past year. The only thing that is still missing is a manual, but help was already offered by a member of this forum. Work on this will begin soon.