Adobe's open source font experience [LWN.net]

Adobe's open source font experience

Posted Aug 30, 2013 21:50 UTC (Fri) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
Parent article: Adobe's open source font experience

> AFDKO is free to download and use, and hoped that people would not let the EULA be an excuse to not get involved.

If not the EULA then certainly the fact that the AFDKO is just plain unavailable for Linux (or any other free operating system).

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Adobe's open source font experience

Posted Sep 2, 2013 17:25 UTC (Mon) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

Have you tried? I haven't, but some of its content includes things that are available for Linux (such as ttx), plus Python and Perl scripts that are likely usable either standalone or with FontForge. The compiled things for which there is no source available is what needs work on the company's side to turn into a real FOSS release, but I'm not sure if any of those would be usable with WINE; it's certainly possible, since they are pretty small and self-contained. I have not delved into it, but it may be quite usable. Getting a better picture of how usable it is would be a good first step toward eventually shaping a real Linux release further down the road.

Nate