Suggestions on MakeOTF UI Read and others,
I have some minor suggestions regarding the MakeOTF user interface. First of
all, I only fairly recently noticed that the "fontinfo" syntax basically is
an extended version of the ".inf" file which is an undocumented file,
supplemental to Type 1 fonts. This means that, for very basic conversions,
once could use the .inf file as generated by other applications.
My suggestion: when the user chooses an input font file, e.g.
d:\temp\MyFont.pfb, MakeOTF automatically look for d:\temp\MyFont.inf and,
if found, automatically put it as "Font info file".
Similarly, MakeOTF should look for d:\temp\MyFont.fea and, if found,
automatically put it as "Feature file".
When input file is selected, MakeOTF should automatically put
d:\temp\MyFont-PostScriptName.otf as output file.
Finally, there should be an option "automatically save log file" that, if
active, automatically would save the log into d:\temp\MyFont.log.
With this set up, in a simple conversion case, the user would on
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