[tex-live] FontForge SFD files

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Jul 19 11:49:27 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:07:57AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > Though sources are generally useful, in this case the SFD files
> > provide almost no data that is not present in the generated OTF
> > files, so apart from being plain text dump of the fonts (in a format
> > only FontForge can make use of AFAIK), they provide no extra value.
> 
> You are aware that the extension `.sfd' is used for two different file
> types, and that FontForge accidentally uses both of them?  I've
> `invented' the extension for `Subfont Definition Files' (IIRC, this
> was even before George used `.sfd' for FontForge) as needed by ttf2pk,
> and I suspect that Karl is talking about this.

By "useless to texlive" I was referring to FontForge SFDs, and as they
are now moved to "source" and thus no searched by kpathsea, the clash
should not be an issue, too.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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