Graide
Graide stands for GRAphite Integrated Development Environment. It is a tool that can be used for developing Graphite fonts.
Graide includes the following features:
- an integrated compiler - for building the Graphite tables into your font
- a test suite facility - for organizing and running test data for your Graphite font
- a debugger - allowing you to see the exact effects of of your Graphite rules
- an attachment point editor - for visually setting and adjusting attachment points
- a position tweaker - generates GDL rules based on visually positioned glyphs (to be included in a future release)
The program is currently under development.
Download
A development release, version 0.5, is available below. These are stand-alone executables that require no installation.
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Graide 0.5 for Windows Sharon Correll, 2012-10-08 Download "graide.exe", Windows application, 13MB [123 downloads] |
Note
The Windows executable file must be named exactly graide.exe in order to run.
The Mac version is for 64-bit systems:
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Graide 0.5 for Mac Sharon Correll, 2012-10-08 Download "graide_0_5_mac", Document (unknown type), 24MB [70 downloads] |
Feedback
Please send feedback to:
- If you have a Palaso account, you may add bug reports to the bug database:
http://projects.palaso.org/projects/graide/issues
Source code
Graide source code may be accessed from the public Mercurial repository:
hg clone http://hg.palaso.org/graide.
Tutorial
The following tutorial teaches basic elements of GDL program and includes instructions for using Graide.
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