sfd2ttf

Hi,
> From the buglist I gather that the fontforge dependency is still an issue.

I've taken a look at the sources and I think a can strip it down to
about 5 to 10 pages of code without a major rewrite.

If this is acceptable, I'd be happy to spend my time.

Theun van der Veen

[Markus Amsler]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
> > From the buglist I gather that the fontforge dependency is still an issue.
>
> I've taken a look at the sources and I think a can strip it down to
> about 5 to 10 pages of code without a major rewrite.
>
> If this is acceptable, I'd be happy to spend my time.

Are you sure?

The problem is TTF generation. There's no library and it's not trivial. 
With 5 to 10 pages its impossible to generate a valid, non-empty TTF file.

I tried it once with dropping all unnecesary features (Apple Advanced 
Typography, Codpages, ...) and managed to get it down to 500 KB. Without 
Code obfuscation or comment dropping my guessed minimum was around 350 
KB which would be around 150-200 pages of code. And we agreed that's too 
much, so I stopped my efforts.
You can download my latest version from [1]. There was also a sfd2ttf 
thread some time ago.

So sfd2ttf is not feasible, and AJ wonn't commit TTF files so I think we 
could resolve this bug as WONTFIX.

Markus

[1] http://oribi.org/download/sfd2ttf.tar.gz