[fontforge-users] Font bigger after extracting subset

[Barrick, Simon]

Hi,
New to the list. I've been trying to use Fontforge to subset a font and extract just the simplified Chinese glyphs but when I do so the outputted ttf is larger than the original despite having less than half the glyphs in it. The font I'm working with is DroidSansFallback.ttf if that helps. I've tried the int trick but that didn't seem to make any difference.
Is there some other "compression" trick that needs to be applied after deleting and removing blank glyphs?

Simon

[Dave Crossland]

Try pyftsubset for this task

Hi,
New to the list. I’ve been trying to use Fontforge to subset a font and
extract just the simplified Chinese glyphs but when I do so the outputted
ttf is larger than the original despite having less than half the glyphs in
it. The font I’m working with is DroidSansFallback.ttf if that helps. I’ve
tried the int trick but that didn’t seem to make any difference.
Is there some other “compression” trick that needs to be applied after
deleting and removing blank glyphs?
Simon
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[Barrick, Simon]

From here?

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/FontTools


From: Dave Crossland [mailto:***@lab6.com]
Sent: 09 March 2017 10:47
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Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Font bigger after extracting subset

Try pyftsubset for this task

On Mar 9, 2017 4:49 AM, "Barrick, Simon" <***@primalpictures.com<mailto:***@primalpictures.com>> wrote:
Hi,
New to the list. I’ve been trying to use Fontforge to subset a font and extract just the simplified Chinese glyphs but when I do so the outputted ttf is larger than the original despite having less than half the glyphs in it. The font I’m working with is DroidSansFallback.ttf if that helps. I’ve tried the int trick but that didn’t seem to make any difference.
Is there some other “compression” trick that needs to be applied after deleting and removing blank glyphs?

Simon

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[Dave Crossland]

Yes

Post by Barrick, Simon
From here?
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/FontTools
*Sent:* 09 March 2017 10:47
*Subject:* Re: [fontforge-users] Font bigger after extracting subset
Try pyftsubset for this task
Hi,
New to the list. I’ve been trying to use Fontforge to subset a font and
extract just the simplified Chinese glyphs but when I do so the outputted
ttf is larger than the original despite having less than half the glyphs in
it. The font I’m working with is DroidSansFallback.ttf if that helps. I’ve
tried the int trick but that didn’t seem to make any difference.
Is there some other “compression” trick that needs to be applied after
deleting and removing blank glyphs?
Simon
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