Just for educational purpose. But also i hate the current kerning and
spacing workflow which the other software provide

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > Primarily i would like it to have the following functionality:
> >
> > 1) It should be able to display each glyph( i mean just like Fontlab
> >    studio where there is the font window and the glyph window) nd
> >    it's side bearings(Both horizontal and vertical(asian fonts))
> > 2) One should be able to adjust the spacing and Kerning manually
> > 3) auto kern and space feature should be there(I can develop my own
> >    algorithms or improve the previous algos)
>
> Any reason for re-inventing the wheel?  I rather suggest to use
> FontForge, which is able to do what you want, IIRC.  Or is this for
> educational purposes only?
>
> > I am only comfortable with python and C# but Freetype is written in
> > C.  Even I am beginner programmer and is there anyway I can use
> > Freetype and python to make the application i want?
>
> Use the python bindings from the `freetype-py' project:
>
>   http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
>
>
>     Werner
>
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