[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#361965: fontnames

Mohammed Adnène Trojette adn+deb at diwi.org
Wed May 3 12:23:19 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 11, 2006, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> Package: ttf-arabeyes
> Version: 1.1-4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> can you rename the fonts to their names without ae_ in the beginning?
> it'd look much better and sorted more natural that way: see this screenshot:
> http://www.linuks.mine.nu/people/nadim/arabeyes.png
> i'd also like to know how you do that...

Hi Gürkan!

Here is how I did that:

#!/usr/bin/fontforge
# Drop the ae_ prefix in the Arabeyes fonts

i=1
while ( i<$argc )
  Open($argv[i])
  name=Strsub( $fontname, 3 )
  SetFontNames( name, name, name )
  Generate($argv[i]:r + ".ttf")
  i = i+1
endloop

Is it OK?
-- 
adn
Mohammed Adnène Trojette





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