TTX error

[Jeremy Mickel]

I've noticed a strange phenomenon lately -- If I input an OTF using TTX, it spits out a TTX document. But then if I input that TTX document to regenerate the font, it exports as a TTF. 

The TTF isn't installable, but if I change the file extension to OTF, it's a usable font.

It's been happening for a few weeks now in OSX 10.8. I recently upgraded to OSX 10.9 and it still happens, even after reinstalling FontTools.

Thanks for any ideas on what might be wrong!

Jeremy

[Dave Crossland]

Which version of ttx is that?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

[+fonttools]

On 13-10-31 09:11 PM, Jeremy Mickel wrote:
> I've noticed a strange phenomenon lately -- If I input an OTF using TTX, it
> spits out a TTX document. But then if I input that TTX document to regenerate
> the font, it exports as a TTF.

Looks to me like this have been broken forever... The following patch fixes it:

diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/ttx.py b/Lib/fontTools/ttx.py
index 6cef64a..56f211a 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/ttx.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/ttx.py
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def guessFileType(fileName):
elif head in ("\0\1\0\0", "true"):
return "TTF"
elif head.lower() == "<?xm":
- if opentypeheaderRE.match(header):
+ if opentypeheaderRE.search(header):
return "OTX"
else:
return "TTX"


I'll push a fix in my tree.

> The TTF isn't installable, but if I change the file extension to OTF, it's a
> usable font.
>
> It's been happening for a few weeks now in OSX 10.8. I recently upgraded to
> OSX 10.9 and it still happens, even after reinstalling FontTools.
>
> Thanks for any ideas on what might be wrong!
>
> Jeremy
>

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[Ben Kiel]

Jeremy,

What version does doing ttx -h give you?

Best,
Ben

[Jeremy Mickel]

Thanks guys. I'm using TTX 2.4

j

[Ben Kiel]

Jeremy,

It looks the the Regex was changed in 2.4 for detecting TTF vs OTF, and that seems like it might be the cause. If you recently switched from 2.3 to 2.4 that would be the reason.

I'm terrible at regex, so I'm not 100% sure, but that did change in 2.4 and is at the heart of the patch Behdad sent. I use TTX a lot, 2.3, and haven't ever had the problem you describe, so that's my best guess.

Try installing 2.3 and it should do the trick.

Best,
Ben

[Dave Crossland]

On 1 November 2013 10:58, Ben Kiel <b...@benkiel.com> wrote:
> Try installing 2.3 and it should do the trick.

Or install Behdad's version from https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/
which has many other improvements :)

[Erik van Blokland]

.. And dependencies. When are we going to have a talk about those?

Erik

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-11-01 05:37 PM, Erik van Blokland wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 1 nov. 2013, at 18:19, Dave Crossland <da...@lab6.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 November 2013 10:58, Ben Kiel <b...@benkiel.com> wrote:
>>> Try installing 2.3 and it should do the trick.
>>
>> Or install Behdad's version from https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/
>> which has many other improvements :)
>
> .. And dependencies. When are we going to have a talk about those?

I don't understand. What kinds of dependencies? I'd love to hear your
thoughts on the list I set up specifically for this purpose:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/fonttools

Regards,
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