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[anthrotype]

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[anthrotype]

(that was the original template message)
I'm actually not sure what we want to do with this new forum, but I was simply curious to try it out so I have enabled the feature.
I guess we could retire the old https://groups.google.com/d/forum/fonttools and use this instead. The latter has very low traffic anyway.

[belluzj]

There's also the Gitter chatroom which could be moved here as well?

[anthrotype]

Gitter

Yeah maybe, even though that's more for real-time communication, while AFAIU this one looks more like a forum. OK, we don't often engage in real-time communication on that gitter chat either.

[anthrotype]

(I should have replied inside the inline reply box below your message.. still learning :)

[ctrlcctrlv]

Yup I use fonttools and like it

I used it to trick my users into thinking I actually made a release recently lol

https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/TT2020/blob/master/build/version_0.2_patch.py

[BoldMonday]

Long time user of FontTools here. It is an indispensable part of our production system where it is used predominantly to enhance generated binaries. And we use the subsetter too.

I'm mainly following this repo to stay informed of the latest updates and tricks.

[typoman]

I'm a big fan of fontTools! I use fontTools to fix the issues in my fonts. I even made a JIT font compiler using ufo2ft and fontTools, so I just lazy compile only the changing contours without having to compile the whole font every time I change a contour.

I also come here to stay informed about changes and new features. Thank you all for maintaining this magical library!

[behdad]

Thanks Bahman!

The incremental build is something related to what we are discussing in:

#1095

I'll comment on incremental build there soon.

Cheers,
b

[ftCLI]

Hi all,

I released a small command line interface for FontTools. Still lacks documentation, but has decent help.

It helps making small fixes as well as correctly compiling the name table.

https://github.com/ftCLI/ftCLI

[behdad]

Hi. Fonttools itself also has a CLI. It might be less confusing if you name your project something else. But otherwise, cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[ftCLI]

Hi behdad,

thanks. I renamed it as pyFontEditor.

[behdad]

nice. :)

[alerque]

Ouch, it looks like you re-initialized and org and repository instead of using GitHub's rename features. Hence old links above are broken, the new one as far as I can find is: https://github.com/ftCLI/ftCLI

Additionally, I can't find any evidence of the above mentioned rename to pyFontEditor. In fact the only thing I can turn up in a search is this conversation. Can you link to where the canonical source for the project is now? I'd like to update Arch AUR packages with the correct name but can't find the project.

[ftCLI]

Sorry, missed this message.

It has been renamed to ftCLI and the repository is https://github.com/ftCLI/ftCLI