Latest AFDKO 2.5 seems broken — Typophile archive

Idris Samawi Hamid2 June 2014 · 21:270 votes

Greetings,

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/eula.html
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/opentype/FDK-25-WIN.zip

I tried this today and it seems broken. The paths in FinishInstallWindows.cmd seem incorrect (I get errors). Even when I manually enter the correct paths, set the PATH etc., and re-login, the tools give python errors.

Switching to Fontlab macro style: There is no FDK/Tools/FontLab directory in the FDK tree, and there is no installFontLabMacros.py anywhere in the zip.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Did I get an incorrect zip somehow?

BTW, I have Python 2.7.1 installed previously on my system (so I can already I run the occasional FontLab script)

Thanks in advance for any help!

Arno Enslin9 July 2014 · 14:330 votes

Did I get an incorrect zip somehow?

No. Have a look at "http://forum.fontlab.com/index.php?topic=9060.0".

Unfortunately Adobe provides the latest version only. I would like to have build 62690, but I cannot download it anymore. This is very annoying, because you have no access to a build, that works, and it makes it more difficult to precisely report bugs. Adobe should keep all versions, that are listed in the release notes, on the servers.