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Convert a UFO into a ttf file without OpenType tables using minimal processing (compared to fontmake).

Compared to the below it does not decompose glyphs or remove overlaps and curve conversion seems to happen in a different way.

This script should be functionally equivalent to how fontmake converts a UFO to a ttf file except that it excludes the compilation of fea and the renaming of glyphs to production names.

Rename the glpyhs in a ttf file based on production names in a UFO using same technique as fontmake. Production names come from ufo.lib.public.postscriptNames according to ufo2ft comments, but I don't know exactly where in the UFO that is.

The easiest way to install all the needed libraries is to install fontmake. (A smith vm may already have fontmake installed -- see below.) Either of the below should work:

sudo pip install fontmake

or

pip install --user fontmake

If you want to isolate all eleven of the libraries fontmake needs, you can install fontmake in a python virtual environment and run the scripts there. Please note that a virtual environment won't work simply with smith.

If your smith vm already has fontmake installed, try running ufo2ttf.py. If it produces errors concerning modules that cannot be found, you may need to use Python 2 and update the fontmake dependencies:

sudo -H python2 -m pip install fontmake

sudo -H python2 -m pip install --upgrade fontmake

python2 ufo2fea.py

FWIW, OpenType support can be added using fonttools after running either ufo2ttf script. features.fea can be compiled using the command line:

fonttools feaLib [-h] [-o <fn>] [-v] <fea fn> <ttf fn>