AFDKO 2.5 is released!
A new release of the FDK, AFDKO 2.5, has been posted at:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html
This release finally brings the FDK tools fully up to par with the OpenType specification. The most notable new features are that the FDK now fully supports all GSUB and GPOS lookup categories, and can apply the feature file directives to TTF source fonts to build TTF fonts with OpenType layout tables. The power of the FDK command-line tools can now be applied to building fonts for all scripts, including complex scripts such as Arabic and Indic.
AFDKO 2.5 also supports several of the newer OpenType features: user-friendly names for stylistic set features, and expanded lookup flag settings for use with mark classes. In addition, for CJK fonts, the tools now support Ideographic Variation Sequences (IVSes).
If you’re someone who builds or tests fonts, please try it out! (Installation is now working better as well, and there is a command file for Windows that avoids the earlier need to edit environment variables). Note that the AFDKO is tools are all command-line based, and and require some willingness to get technical.
– Read Roberts
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In addition to thanking Read for his hard work and effort in getting this new release out-the-door and into the hands of font developers, I feel obliged to point out that these are the same tools that we in Type Development at Adobe Systems use to develop our OpenType fonts.
The link does not work.
It says:
” Sorry, this page is not available “
We are aware of this issue, and are working to get it fixed. Please be patient.
two years later, the link still doesn’t work … waiting for godot.
The link was working, through URL redirection, when I tried it earlier today. I am guessing that something, perhaps an obscure setting in your browser, or a temporary glitch on our website, prevented the URL redirection from working. In any case, I corrected the URL so that it represents the currently working one. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Hi, I am trying to install the Fontlab Macros on a Windows 7 computer and when I run the installFontlabMacros.py I got: # Tools/Fontlab
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:FDKToolsFontlabinstallFontlabMacros.py”, line 135; in ? run
File “C:FDKToolsFontlabinstallFontlabMacros.py”, line 92, in run
fdkToolsDir = os.path.dirname
Please help!!