Character outlines, metrics and hinting are not touched. Some features: Convert PostScript Type 1 fonts to OpenType fonts for Windows PC and Macintosh - Convert PostScript Type 1 fonts between PC and Mac. Ĭommercial 45 USD shareware Windows utility by Acute Systems: CrossFont is a Windows 95/98/NT utility for moving PostScript Type1 and TrueType fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms. Even Adobe folks often use TTX.) Mac download file. (In fairness, Adobe's FDK for OpenType also has table dumping/recompiling tools, just not quite as slick as TTX. It can also recompile the text file back into a font. This dumps the font info to an XML text file, which can be viewed/edited in any text editor or anything that can handle XML. Thomas Phinney compares it with the free TTX tool, and says this: Currently, if I want a simple and accurate representation of the contents of a TrueType or OpenType font, and possibly to edit the info, I have been using the wondrous open source TTX tool, which is based on the FontTools library. The proofing tools work with TrueType-based source fonts, but the makeotf, checkOutlines, and autohint tools work only with PostScript source fonts or OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines. It does not offer tools for designing or editing glyphs. Note also that the AFDKO is for adding OpenType data to existing fully-designed PostScript fonts, and for proofing them. Note! Although the FDK directory tree contains a number of Python scripts, none of them can be used by double-clicking on them they can only be successfully called as commands from a command-line window (the 'Terminal' program on Mac, the 'cmd' or 'DOS' program on Windows). Use them at your own risk, and with no guarantee of support! We know that they work for the fonts Adobe makes, but have tested only part of what it is possible to express with OpenType. These tools are used for in-house development of new Adobe OpenType fonts. Quoted from the site: The goal of the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType package is to share the tools used by Adobe font developers for wrapping up PostScript fonts as OpenType/CFF font files, and adding OpenType layout features.

TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onĪdobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (or: OTFDK)įree in-house tools from Adobe (for Mac OSX, older Mac OS, and Windows, but not UNIX) for wrapping a PostScript type 1 font into an OpenType/CFF font.

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