Discussion:
Live Web Font Previews in FontForge: Your Feature Requests, Please!
Dave Crossland
2013-11-03 03:19:12 UTC
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Hi!

Back in March I demo'd a new and to me very exciting, unique, feature
of FontForge that I've developed with the AMAZING Dr Ben Martin who
lives down in Australia: real time "Google Docs"-like collaboration in
FontForge, including real time web font previewing.

Here is a 10 minute presentation I gave with Ben about it at the Libre
Graphics Meeting in Madrid at that time:



And here's two 1 minute videos showing the feature working with real users:





This has JUST STARTING to be available as standard in in the Mac
bundle of FontForge which you can download here:

http://fuuko.libferris.com/osx/packages/201311/03_0415/FontForge.app.zip

(If you haven't installed it before, the full instructions are here:

http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/mac/ :-)

Here is the Github issue tracking the development of this. I just
posted a screenshot so you can see what it looks like:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/878#issuecomment-27637661

Today it has a few odd behaviours, but these should be resolve in the
next week or so.

For anyone wanting to test this out, here's a quick screencast showing
how to get it going:

http://blog.craftingtype.com/post/65853255507/2-new-fontforge-features-available-in-no-other

Please give this a spin!

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Cheers
Dave
Javier Domingo
2013-11-03 10:31:43 UTC
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Nice feature!!
Post by Dave Crossland
Hi!
Back in March I demo'd a new and to me very exciting, unique, feature
of FontForge that I've developed with the AMAZING Dr Ben Martin who
lives down in Australia: real time "Google Docs"-like collaboration in
FontForge, including real time web font previewing.
Here is a 10 minute presentation I gave with Ben about it at the Libre
http://youtu.be/xvSWVuauFVI
http://youtu.be/rMR7H8IWlTI
http://youtu.be/BqwTim6gMHA
This has JUST STARTING to be available as standard in in the Mac
http://fuuko.libferris.com/osx/packages/201311/03_0415/FontForge.app.zip
http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/mac/ :-)
Here is the Github issue tracking the development of this. I just
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/878#issuecomment-27637661
Today it has a few odd behaviours, but these should be resolve in the
next week or so.
For anyone wanting to test this out, here's a quick screencast showing
http://blog.craftingtype.com/post/65853255507/2-new-fontforge-features-available-in-no-other
Please give this a spin!
--
Cheers
Dave
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