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Hi All,<br>
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I was thinking for this from some time now. <br>
Reasons:<br>
1. Lots of well know fonts are using AFDKO. AFAIK Adobe fonts are
build using AFDKO.<br>
2. Things we required in Lohit specifically, easy to read feature
files and final ttf with Adobe glyph naming guideline looks easily
manageable with AFDKO. (<em>GlyphOrderAndAliasDB and .Fea</em>)<br>
3. AFDKO feature file compilation is much better than Fontforge.
Noticed this earlier with OTM errors. Also while compiling i found
number of error not identified by fontforge.<br>
4. All command line, so we can automate very nicely.<br>
5. We will use fontforge only for outline related work. Presently
we are still using fontforge for OpenType rules writing, i have not
faced any problem into it yet. But perfect solution is we should
write open type rules in .fea file itself. This at least not
targeting presently<br>
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Regards,<br>
Pravin Satpute<br>
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