Welcome to RoboFab
Robothon 2009
Robothon09 is behind us. Thanks for coming! If you watched the stream, thanks for watching! If you couldn't make it to the conference, or were too busy twittering so you could not follow the talks, here are the recorded sessions:
- Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes
- Watch the talks in better resolution at Blip.tv
- Take a look at the RSS feed.
Robofab Step by step intro
For the Robothon conference, we've put together a couple of chapters introducing python, the robofab objects, and a couple of example scripts. There's even a version formatted you can print on dead trees.
Robofab
RoboFab is a Python library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design. RoboFab reads and writes UFO font files and works in any Python 2.3 (and 2.2.1), 2.4. 2.5. The RoboFab code for FontLab works in in FontLab 4.6, FontLab Studio 5 and up.
RoboFab is available as a couple of relatively easy to install packages. If you're just starting with RoboFab, or you just want to make UFO's, this is the place to start.
For developers and folks who like to keep their fingers on the pulse of digital type, there is trac and svn service. The svn version will be more up to date and might contain new features. But you have to know how to checkout stuff from svn.
This site
- Download RoboFab: download options and installers.
- RoboFab Getting Started: simple stuff
- Glossary: index of words and terminology.
- How To: A couple of cases and examples
- Links: Relevant links for RoboFab, Font tools and editors.
- Objects: Overview of the objects, their methods and attributes
- Robothon 2009, March 5 + 6, The Hague: Announcing the 2009 Robothon conference.
- Step by step: An overview of step by step explanations of common procedures and objects.
- 00: RoboFab Step by step: An overview of step by step explanations of common procedures and objects.
- RoboFab Tools: overview of the tools and miscellaneous code.
- UFO: About the UFO tools
Object Model
Here is a handy map of the RoboFab objects.
The Developers
RoboFab is developed and maintained by Tal Leming, Erik van Blokland, Just van Rossum (in no particular order)
Contact
Email the RoboFab Consortium at
i n f o (at) r o b o f a b (dot) o r g
Copyrights
This package is distributed under the BSD license. See the license. RoboFab is built in Python. Parts of RoboFab use fontTools, an OpenSource font toolkit by Just van Rossum. Parts of the RoboFab library are built to work with code from FontLab, which is a product of Pyrus Inc. Parts of RoboFab implement the Property List file format in XML, copyright Apple Computer. Parts of RoboFab implement tables and names from PostScript and the OpenType FDK, copyright Adobe.