CSS Orientation Test OpenType Fonts Open @ Adobe

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+CSS Orientation Test
+====
+
+Overview
+----
+CSS Orientation Test are special-purpose OpenType fonts. This open source project provides all of the source files that were used to build these OpenType fonts by using the AFDKO *makeotf* tool.
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+Getting Involved
+----
+Send suggestions for changes to the CSS Orientation Test project maintainer, lunde@adobe.com, for consideration.
+
+Building
+====
+
+Pre-built font binaries
+----
+The installable font resources (font binaries) are not part of the source files. They are available on [Open@Adobe](https://sourceforge.net/projects/csso9ntestfonts.adobe/files/).
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+Requirements
+----
+
+For building binary font files from source, installation of the [Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html) (AFDKO) is necessary. The AFDKO tools are widely used for font development today, and are part of most font editor applications.
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+Building the fonts
+----
+
+The key to building OpenType fonts is *makeotf*, which is part of AFDKO. Information and usage instructions can be found by executing *makeotf -h*.
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+In this repository, all necessary files are in place for building the OpenType fonts. For example, build a binary OTF font for the full-width version like this, which also includes a post-process for inserting a "stub" 'DSIG' table:
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+    % makeotf -f cidfont.ps -r -ch UnicodeAll-UTF32-H
+    % sfntedit -a DSIG=DSIG.bin CSSFWOrientationTest.otf
+    % sfntedit -f CSSFWOrientationTest.otf
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+That is all.