To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Subject: font tools (was Re: Font license issues)
From: Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 05:36:46 -0500
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Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
...
changes directly to the font, and get a derivative of it. (fontforge
is not a native truetype editor, BTW). Thus, if I distribute a font
...
Have you looked at http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/? I just found
it this weekend. According to the webpage, the OTComp tool is an
Opentype compiler that supports almost all lookups. It is also
sprinkeld with pleas for feedback, esp. for non-latinate languages.
Looks pretty promising.
-gregg
p.s. Should we start a font dev thread on the dev list?