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authorJames Godfrey-Kittle <jamesgk@google.com>2015-03-10 10:37:03 -0700
committerJames Godfrey-Kittle <jamesgk@google.com>2015-04-16 12:16:33 -0700
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The Roboto build toolchain depends on:
- FontTools (https://github.com/behdad/fonttools)
- RoboFab (https://github.com/robofab-developers/robofab)
+Overlap removal depends on the "booleanOperations" (https://github.com/typemytype/booleanOperations) library, which is included in `scripts/lib/`. You may need to replace its `pyclipper.so` with `pyclipper-MAC.so` or `pyclipper-LINUX.so`, depending on your platform, or compile the cpp wrapper yourself according to the instructions found on GitHub.
### OTF Generation
OTF generation depends on:
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- 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:
+### TTF Generation
+TTF generation depends 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`.