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diff --git a/system/afdko/README b/system/afdko/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a8a240034 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/afdko/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +afdko (Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType) + +The goal of the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType package is to +share the tools used by Adobe font developers for wrapping up +PostScript (i.e. Type1) fonts as OpenType/CFF font files, and adding +OpenType layout features. These tools are used for in-house +development of new Adobe OpenType fonts. + +Now that Libreoffice has dropped support for Type1 fonts, one can use +afdko to convert the system Type1 fonts to OTF, which +Libreoffice supports. The package Type1_to_OTF does this. + + +Notes for x86_64 + +As received from upstream, adfko forces the building of 32-bit +executables. This is fine on a 32-bit system. On a 64-bit system, the +SlackBuild enables a 64-bit build. This is experimental and unsupported, +but seems to work OK (at least for makeotf and tx). |