[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: spiro - toolkit for curve design (font editor)

Nicolas Spalinger nicolas_spalinger at sil.org
Sat May 5 20:48:50 UTC 2007


Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : spiro
* Version         : 1.0
* Upstream Author : Raph Levien
* URL             : http://levien.com/spiro/
* License         : GNU General Public License
* Description     : toolkit for curve design (font editor)


Spiro is a toolkit for curve design, especially font design, created by
Raph Levien. It is still experimental but very promising.

It contains a new spline implementation based on Euler spirals.

It includes python utilities for manipulating curves, a Bezier
optimizer, tools to do scan segmenting and compositing into letter
classes, suitable for tracing over.

It exports to fontforge SFD and uses Gtk2 and cairo.










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