gww at silcom.com wrote: > At the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal I was asked by someone from Scribus > (and I can't recall who any longer) to write a tool for checking that a font > was > valid (didn't have any intersecting contours, had points at the extrema, etc.) > > I have now written this tool, called fontlint. > It is part of the current release of fontforge.
Wow. That sounds incredibly useful, especially if it has FontForge's full range of format support. Fontforge its self is a life saver in DTP. I'll have to run fontlint over the font library at work to see what it thinks - we've got a rather broad collection of fonts kicking around. -- Craig Ringer
