Typecast is a font development environment for OpenType font technology. Facilities (will) include:
Parts of the Typecast libraries are used in the Apache Batik project, for conversion from TrueType to SVG fonts. Further contributions will be made to Batik - particularly in the areas of PostScript outlines and font hinting.
OpenType fonts come in a small range of file format flavours. Typecast supports the following:
Typecast is also able to export fonts to non-OpenType formats. Currently, the following are supported:
No import file formats are supported as yet, but traditional PostScript Type 1 and Compact Font Format (CFF) font import are under development.
Current outline support is for TrueType outlines. But of course, PostScript outlines are on the development roadmap.
Partial support is in place for the Advanced Typographic Tables, specifically the GPOS and GSUB tables. All advanced tables will be implemented in the ongoing development.
All people with an interest in font technology are invited to join the Typecast project. We need people to do coding work, but more importantly we need people who work with fonts and have ideas about what their ideal tool should do. Typecast's initial design is driven by a desire to give people access to every level of a font's creation. But we need to know how to develop that design into one of a professional-level typography tool, and we invite all typography professionals (and enthusiastic amateurs) to help us achieve that.
So please sign on in whatever capacity you feel suitable (we can never have enough testers!). Then download the latest test build and start taking a closer look at the OpenType fonts on your system!
Typecast is built with Java JDK 5.0 and later. Primary source code development is performed using NetBeans 5.5.
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