> I’m among those developers “craving” for a tool to create test > fonts, specifically to write unit tests for fontTools.
Good to know :-) > I checkout out the 010 Editor and the “TTFTemplate.bt" you linked > to. It doesn’t look much different from what the sstruct.py and > sfnt.py modules already do within fontTools. For each sfnt table, > fontTools provides a template for (un)packing binary data (to)from > predefined types. OK. > I guess the reason why you believe the test font generator “must be > on a far lower level than ttx”, is that the latter is meant to > produce “valid” fonts, so it doesn’t expose all the intricacies of > the sfnt format which we would like to test (this incidentally is > what makes it a “textual, human-readable representation of a > font”…). Exactly. If there is a possibility to intentionally bypass the validity somehow, this would be the way to go. > I’ll try to see if I can come up with some solution built on top of > fontTools, and let you know how it goes. Thanks in advance! Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel