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| author | James Godfrey-Kittle <jamesgk@google.com> | 2015-02-27 18:07:36 -0800 |
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| committer | James Godfrey-Kittle <jamesgk@google.com> | 2015-04-16 12:16:31 -0700 |
| commit | 163d70d2d0b8fca8141db2f8660b07cf726f245b (patch) | |
| tree | 428328d892d39a2404213d247ee54b34860a0d62 | |
| parent | 526baf754060cc5a40e8f07a2ff4ae7fc571588c (diff) | |
Add a simple readme file to describe dependencies.
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..641fc0b --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Setup + +### OTF Generation +OTF generation depends on: +- ufo2fdk (https://github.com/typesupply/ufo2fdk) +- Open-source portions of the AFDKO (https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/releases) +The AFDKO from GitHub can be time consuming to setup. It is easier to just use the variety which includes closed-source tools (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html), though these closed-source portions are not used to build Roboto. + +### TTF Generation and Overlap Removal +TTF generation and overlap removal depend on: +- FontForge (https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge) +Whose Python interface should be availabe on Ubuntu by default via `apt-get install fontforge` and `apt-get install python-fontforge`. |