New fontbakery-fix-ttfautohint.py script

[davelab6]

A lot of fonts in the gf collection have old versions of ttfautohint applied, and it would be great to have a script that initially uses the methods in fontbakery-fix-version.py that...

• finds which version was used, grepping the name table or reading the ttfa table (which are created if the -I or -t args respectively were passed to ttfautohint, to record its args in the ttf file) (there is a pypi package https://pypi.python.org/pypi/font-ttfa for reading the ttfa table, although per Such a big repo for such a small tool :)  source-foundry/font-ttfa#1 it might be better to inline the code... :)
• has an --autofix arg/method that runs the latest version of ttfautohint using the options from the name table.

I encountered this while updating Raleway, impallari/Raleway#2

[chrissimpkins]

Feel free to grab and use anything that proves useful from font-ttfa or let me know if you'd like me to submit a PR here rather than in https://github.com/twardoch/fonttools-utils as you suggested in the issue report.

Here's the start of the meat of the script https://github.com/source-foundry/font-ttfa/blob/master/lib/fontttfa/app.py#L58-73

[davelab6]

Thanks!!

Fontbakery is a bit bloated and this update tool is a bit different to yours, so adams' repo is better, I think :)

[chrissimpkins]

👍

[davelab6]

The 0.1.0 rewrite should do this

[davelab6]

@felipesanches what is the status of this?

[davelab6]

994ea77 introduces a script that will print the table information if present. The next action is to implement the autofix method as described above. This is a 'misc' category task with relatively low importance.

[simoncozens]

These days we don't fix fonts in fontbakery, but we already have a check for making sure that ttfautohint is up to date. Feel free to reopen if I've misunderstood.