----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: Markus Amsler markus.amsler@oribi.org Datum: zaterdag, november 25, 2006 11:05 pm Onderwerp: Re: sfd2ttf
theun.wine.mail@planet.nl wrote:
Hi,
From the buglist I gather that the fontforge dependency is still
an issue.
I've taken a look at the sources and I think a can strip it down to about 5 to 10 pages of code without a major rewrite.
If this is acceptable, I'd be happy to spend my time.
Are you sure?
The problem is TTF generation. There's no library and it's not trivial. With 5 to 10 pages its impossible to generate a valid, non-empty TTF file.
I tried it once with dropping all unnecesary features (Apple Advanced Typography, Codpages, ...) and managed to get it down to 500 KB. Without Code obfuscation or comment dropping my guessed minimum was around 350 KB which would be around 150-200 pages of code. And we agreed that's too much, so I stopped my efforts. You can download my latest version from [1]. There was also a sfd2ttf thread some time ago.
So sfd2ttf is not feasible, and AJ wonn't commit TTF files so I think we could resolve this bug as WONTFIX.
Markus
Obviously, you've already put quite a bit of effort in sfd2ttf and the result is there. Since it also clear that the sfd2ttf entry in the buglist in far from up to date, I think it's a good idea to modify the entry to reflect the current status.
Hopefully, this will prevent other potential contributers from wasting their time.
Thanks,
Theun van der Veen.