Re: Japanese or Chinese font software?

Many thanks for posting those, but it's disappointing, isn't it? A
command-line utility to put two ttfs into a ttc, and one to break them
apart again.

I wonder why none(?) of the main font editors can edit a ttc directly?
Say you've got a set of glyphs which you arrange in a font in a number
of ways (ie. a character should get different glyphs in the different
fonts; old-style numbers is a common example). In a ttc, such a set of
fonts could share the glyf and kern tables, and have their separate
cmap tables. Not all glyphs appear in all fonts.

The payoff should come when you have to edit a glyph shape or change a
kern value in the collection. You should only need to do this once for
the collection, not once for each font. But if you have to break the
ttc into ttfs to fix it, you have to make the fix as many times as
there are fonts.

I was hoping there might be more use of ttcs in the Far East, and
software to match. I was told that Asia Font Studio could edit ttcs,
but I don't know if that information is reliable (anybody?) Anyway
it's somewhat expensive.

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