Bug#868006: RFP: ufo2ft -- A bridge from UFOs to fonttools objects

2017-07-10 Thread James Godfrey-Kittle 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: ufo2ft
  Version : 0.5.3
  Upstream Author : Tal Leming
* URL : https://github.com/googlei18n/ufo2ft
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : A bridge from UFOs to fonttools objects

This library converts fonts from UFO, a common font source format, to
fonttools Python objects, which can subsequently saved as OTF or TTF
binaries.

Bug#868005: RFP: glyphsLib -- Library for opening and converting Glyphs font sources

2017-07-10 Thread James Godfrey-Kittle 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: glyphsLib
  Version : 1.7.5
  Upstream Author : Google Internationalization Team
* URL : https://github.com/googlei18n/glyphsLib
* License : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Library for opening and converting Glyphs font sources

This library can open and manipulate Glyphs font source files
(.glyphs), and provides a tool for exporting these sources to the UFO
format.

Bug#868004: RFP: cu2qu -- Python library for cubic-to-quadratic bezier curve conversion

2017-07-10 Thread James Godfrey-Kittle 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: cu2qu
  Version : 1.2.0
  Upstream Author : Google Internationalization Team
* URL : https://github.com/googlei18n/cu2qu
* License : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Python library for cubic-to-quadratic bezier curve
conversion

cu2qu is a library that approximates cubic bezier curves with quadratic
splines. This has general utility, but is especially useful for generating
fonts.