@"Hin-Tak Leung": Yes, it's got to be worthwhile to see what ttfautohint is doing (if only because it's doing it so fast!). I'll check it out. As for go/golang: I'm always glad of an excuse… (View Post)
@"jeremy tribby": It would be easy to add the ability to read a UFO, but (last I noticed, anyway), UFO doesn't know how to store TrueType hints. Ygt handles hints for variable fonts now, bu… (View Post)
I tried what you're suggesting--writing a font to memory (with instructions for only a single glyph) and loading it into FreeType from a stream—but couldn't make it work. I should spend more time on … (View Post)
@"Dave Crossland" : I know Mike Duggan's big how-to and his ATypI talk--both very valuable, and with much that can be useful to users of any tool. What I know of seems oriented more towards… (View Post)
With apologies for a long post, I’d like to invite anyone interested in TrueType hinting to take a look at an app I’ve been working on for the last few months. Called YGT (don’t ask), it’s a graphica… (View Post)