Progress on authoring tool testing

Hello,

This is where I am on

  ACTION-106: Run authoring tools against the at-tests and make report

* sfnt2woff
http://people.mozilla.com/~jkew/woff/

Precompiled version tested on Windows, one failure. Compiling source version on cygwin, to also test woff2sfnt.

* FontSquirrel
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

Testing in expert mode with only WOFF output, all optional fixups, subsetting and table-dropping disabled, hinting not dropped.

Some invalid files are converted and fixed, some fail conversion (either way a pass). Looking good so far, almost done testing.

FontSquirrel says that "OTF fonts are now converted to TTF for better rendering on Windows." which could be a problem. 

* font2web.com
http://www.font2web.com

Not yet tested.

*otf2woff
http://orionevent.comxa.com/otf2woff.html

Not yet tested.

* Fontforge
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

Compiling latest version from source on Linux. Not finished installing, no test results yet.


If foundries have their own tools (not using sfnt2woff, in other words) it would be good to get test results for those as well.


-- 
 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
 Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups

Received on Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:25:00 UTC