Re: Handling TrueType fonts not allowing subsetting
Dinu Gherman <[email protected]>
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Andy Robinson:
>> https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
>
> That is a REALLY nice resource to have - thank you! If we get a
> 'quiet patch' this summer I'll look into a command to
> auto-download-and-install from it.
What do you mean with a "quiet patch"? It seems like there is no archive
with TTF/OTF files only, but you need to clone the entire (2.5 GB) Mer-
curial repo... If you want to do that you can filter these files into
one folder like this:
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory
mkdir gfd
find googlefontdirectory -name "*.[ot]tf" -exec cp '{}' gfd ';'
Some files appear only as OTF or TTF, most appear in both formats. A very
quick count inside that folder gives me 805 distinct font family names
(excluding additions like "-Regular" etc:
> import os
> l = os.listdir(".")
> names = sorted(set([n[:n.find("-")] if "-" in n else n[:-4] for n in l]))
> len(names)
805
This is a freaking number that screams for a volunteer to make some kind
of font catalog PDF to chose from... But I suppose this would be a huge
file and Google actually has a pretty nice online interface for that:
http://www.google.com/fonts/
Regards,
Dinu
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