[OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

Denis Jacquerye moyogo at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 01:03:52 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Strangely, the binary font formats remain very good for exchange. Both
>> the major editors read them!
>
> You'd still lose a lot of metadata though, like OpenType rule names
> for which there's no room in the ttf file. And it's absolutely not
> suited for collaboration.
>
> Ben
>

Fontforge can save extra OpenType tables with metadata (names).
I don't know if other font editing software drops Fontforge's tables.
If they do and names are a priority, you might as well use SFD.

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye


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