From 163d70d2d0b8fca8141db2f8660b07cf726f245b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Godfrey-Kittle Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:07:36 -0800 Subject: Add a simple readme file to describe dependencies. --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md (limited to 'README.md') 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`. -- cgit v1.2.3