ttf2eot mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• ttf2eot

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README identifies the tool as a quick command-line wrapper around Chromium's `OpenTypeUtilities.cpp`, used to create EOT files from TTF or OpenType font files.

The README dates the original author note to 15-Mar-2009 and says the format is what Internet Explorer used for CSS `@font-face` declarations. GitHub metadata describes the current repository as an import of Taviso's tool from the now-defunct Google Code service.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ttf2eot belongs to the web-font compatibility period when developers needed EOT files for Internet Explorer while also shipping other font formats for newer browsers.

Its package-manager footprint is narrow but practical: the supplied package facts list Homebrew and MacPorts. That matches a tiny build-time converter used by web developers and font packagers rather than an end-user application.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented usage is deliberately minimal: build with `make`, then run `./ttf2eot < input.ttf > output.eot`.

Because the tool reads from standard input and writes to standard output, it fits shell pipelines and asset build scripts.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ttf2eot is package-nerd significant precisely because it is so small: package managers kept a one-purpose compatibility converter available after the web platform moved on from EOT.

It is also an example of source-code migration history in package indexes: a Google Code-era utility imported to GitHub and preserved as a formula.

Zeitleiste

• 2008: Microsoft's EOT submission is cited by the README as the format reference.
• 2009: The README author note dates the original utility to 15-Mar-2009.
• 2017: The GitHub repository is created as an import from defunct Google Code.

Related projects

• The README cites Chromium's `OpenTypeUtilities.cpp`, Microsoft's `TTLoadEmbeddedFont`, and the W3C EOT submission.
• The tool sits near other font conversion utilities such as ttf2pt1, but targets web EOT output rather than PostScript Type 1.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/wget/ttf2eot metadata describes the repository as an import from defunct Google Code.
• https://github.com/wget/ttf2eot README documents purpose, EOT context, build command, usage, origin date, and licensing.
• source_facts.package-manager lists Homebrew and MacPorts packages.