A simple utility to convert FontForge’s SFD fonts to UFO fonts. The main objective is to create UFO files that are usable in a larger UFO based workflow, and for that existing UFO libraries are used to generate the UFO fonts.
pip install -U sfdLib # add --user for local installOr:
git checkout https://github.com/MFEK/sfdLib.py.git
cd ./sfdLib.py/
virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .- Copyright (c) 2016–2022, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>, the MFEK Foundation Inc. <info@mfek.org>, and the sfdLib Project Authors (see AUTHORS)
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