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Huge win for subsetter and anyone else who doesn't need the entire tables. Subsetting a huge font (eg. NotoSans-Regular.ttf) to a small set (say, main Cyrillic characters) is something like six times faster now. Bulk of time was being spent in blowing up the GPOS kerning pairs and attach points. Now we don't load those if they won't be in the final subset. Slight slowdown for usecases that need the entire table.
What it is ?
Quoting from TTX/FontTools Sourceforge Project
a tool to convert OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML. FontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. It supports TrueType, OpenType, AFM and to an extent Type 1 and some Mac-specific formats.
Quick start
python setup.py install
From your command line type the above command to get fontools installed on your system.
Installation
See install.txt in the 'Doc' subdirectory for instructions on how to build and install TTX/FontTools from the sources.
Documentation
What is TTX ?
See documentation.html in the "Doc" subdirectory for TTX usage instructions and information about the TTX file format.
Community
License
See "LICENSE.txt" for licensing information.
Have fun!
Just van Rossum just@letterror.com