Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: ufo2otf
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: Take UFO font sources and generate OTF’s and webfonts
Home-page: http://packages.python.org/an_example_pypi_project
Author: Eric Schrijver
Author-email: eric@ericschrijver.nl
License: BSD
Description: =======
        UFO2OTF
        =======
        
        Ufo2otf is a command line utility that takes UFO font sources and generates
        OTF’s and webfonts.
        
        Summary
        -------
        ::
        
            usage: ufo2otf [-h] [--webfonts] [--afdko] infiles [infiles ...]
        
            positional arguments:
              infiles     The source UFO files
        
            optional arguments:
              -h, --help  show this help message and exit
              --webfonts  Generate webfonts in a ./webfonts subfolder
              --afdko     Generate the OTF with Adobe Font Development Kit for Opentype
        
        
        Usage examples
        --------------
        ::
        
            $ ufo2otf OpenBodoni.ufo
        
        will create a file called OpenBodoni.otf.
        ::
        
            $ ufo2otf OpenBodoni-Regular.ufo OpenBodoni-Italic.ufo OpenBodoni-Bold.ufo
        
        will create OpenBodoni-Regalur.otf, OpenBodoni-Italic.otf and OpenBodoni-Bold.otf.
        
        
        Fontforge
        ---------
        
        By default, ufo2otf uses FontForge to generate the otf files. FontForge is a
        free and open source font editor that comes with a python extension. The
        python extension has access to the functionality of FontForge without needing
        to launch the graphical program itself.
        
        Ufo2otf will warn you if FontForge is not present. Installing it can be as
        easy as:
        
        debian, ubuntu::
        
            $ sudo apt-get install fontforge python-fontforge
        
        os x::
        
            $ brew install fontforge
        
        More info see:
        http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/How_to_install_FontForge
        
        AFDKO
        -----
        
        Ufo2otf can also use the AFDKO to generate the fontfiles.
        
        The Adobe Font Development Kit for Opentype are a set of tools made available
        by Adobe that can help you generate Opentype/CFF fonts from PostScript
        sources, and to add OpenType features in the progress.
        
        Since the AFDKO is not open source, and not installable on Linux, it doesn’t
        make a lot of sense for Open Source projects. But it can be useful to have
        around, if only to compare the output to that of FontForge.
        
        Please check http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html for installation
        instructions. Subsequently, one needs to install Tal Leming’s ufo2afdko
        package which in turn depends on Robofab:
        
        http://code.typesupply.com/wiki/ufo2fdk
        http://robofab.org/
        
        Webfonts
        --------
        
        Passing the option ``--webfonts`` will generate a subfolder called webfonts. Ufo2otf
        autohints the font and proceeds to generate ttf and woff files. Feature
        releases will add support for eot, and automatically generating an appropriate
        CSS stylesheet.
        
        When using the AFDKO to convert the fonts the webfonts option is not
        available.
        
        UFO
        ---
        
        UFO is an open and exchangable format for fonts.It is easy to write programs
        that process UFO fonts, and they play well with versioning systems like Git.
        
        http://unifiedfontobject.org/
        
        History
        -------
        
        Ufo2otf has been developed by Eric Schrijver for the Open Baskerville font
        project, a collaborative open source typeface.
        
        http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/
        
        License
        -------
        
        Ufo2otf is licensed under the BSD license (see LICENSE.txt).
        
        Argparse
        --------
        
        This software includes a version of Python 2.7’s argparse module that is
        compatible with earlier version of Python. The author is Steven Bethard and
        the license is the Python Software Foundation license
        http://docs.python.org/license.html
        
Keywords: font utility web ufo otf conversion command line
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
