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      1 This project contains only the cpp/src files from upstream.  To update:
      2 git merge aosp/upstream-master
      3 If upstream has changes outside the cpp/src directory (likely), it will get
      4 conflicts on the modified files.  To drop the changes to the unmerged
      5 directories:
      6 git rm -rf data
      7 git rm -rf java
      8 git rm -rf cpp/data
      9 git rm -rf cpp/ext
     10 git rm -rf cpp/tools
     11 git commit
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README.md

      1 # What is sfntly?
      2 
      3 sfntly is pronounced "esfontlee".
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      5 sfntly is a Java and C++ library for using, editing, and creating sfnt container based fonts (e.g. OpenType, TrueType). This library was initially created by Google's Font Team and the C++ port was done by the Chrome team. It has been made open source.
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      7 The basic features of sfntly are the reading, editing, and writing of an sfnt container font. Fonts that use an sfnt container include OpenType, TrueType, AAT/GX, and Graphite. sfntly isn't itself a tool that is usable by an end user - it is a library that allows software developers to build tools that manipulate fonts in ways that haven't been easily accessible to most developers. The sfntly library is available in Java with a partial C++ port. However, we have included some font tools that are built on top of sfntly: a font subsetter, font dumper, a font linter, some compression utilities.
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      9 The uses of sfntly are really anything that you can think of that involves reading and/or editing fonts. Right now, the Java version is the core library used to power Google's Web Fonts project. There it is used for all font manipulation - to read font data, to pull apart fonts, and to then reassemble them before they are streamed out to a user. Portions of the font that are not needed - specific glyph ranges or features - are stripped using sfntly to minimize the size of the streamed font. The C++ port is used somewhat similarly within Chrome to subset fonts for insertion into a PDF for viewing or printing. Though the features stripped in the font are different in Chrome than in Web Fonts because the end use is different.
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     11 Using sfntly you can read and extract any of the tables in a font. The tables are the individual data structures within the font for each of the features and functionality: glyph outlines, character maps, kerning, meta data, etc. If you look over the OpenType and TrueType specs, you will see a number of categories of tables. sfntly currently supports all of the required tables, the TrueType outline tables, bitmap glyph tables, and a couple of the other miscellaneous tables. This level of support provides for many of the needs developers have related to the informational reading of font data. It also covers a lot of the editing needs.
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     13 To get started with sfntly: clone the repository and follow the quickstart.txt guide in the Java directory
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     15 have fun
     16 
     17 Stuart Gill - sfntly Architect and Lead Developer
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