justvanrossum / vttLib

Dump, merge and compile Visual TrueType data in UFO3 with FontTools

vttLib

A library to

1. Extract VTT hinting data from a OpenType font prepared with Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT) and store it in a FontTools TTX dump
2. Merge it back from a TTX dump into an OpenType font and
3. Compile the data inside to font to ship it (turn TSI* tables into fpgm, etc.).

The primary use case is version control of hinting data of fonts.

Installation and Usage

This package is not yet on PyPI, because... uh...

$ pip install git+https://github.com/daltonmaag/vttLib.git
$ python -m vttLib --help

Making a Release

This is currently not automated.

1. Tag a new version
2. python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
3. Manually transfer dist/*.whl to internal package repository.