Adobe FDK under wine? Or similar FOSS tool?

[Vasile Gaburici]

I think I found the only GPL'd alternative: otcomp (OpenType COMPiler)
by Rogier van Dalen
[http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/otcomp.html]. It has been used
to compile the (proposed, but not yet packaged) Legendum font. The
syntax of the .ot (otcomp source) files is very similar to Adobe's
.fea. But the compiler hasn't been maintained for 5 years, so it
doesn't compile on F9. Did anyone use this tool?

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:
> P.S.: here is a sample feature file for Adobe Minion Pro (2004) made
> public by Adobe:
> http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?233@@.3bb58628!enclosure=.3bb58629
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Editing OpenType feature tables with fontforge is a big PITA. Adding a
>> locl table to Linux Libertine, see
>> [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/Ro_fonts#Linux_Libertine],
>> took me three hours (testing included). And that just for the regular
>> font. Parts of the table are (or rather should be) common between
>> files, but fontforge doesn't support that, so I have to start over for
>> the bold and italic!
>>
>> This presentation
>> [http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/atypi2006/slye_lisbon-05.pdf]
>> should give you an idea what the right tool for the job is like. The
>> good news is that Adobe FDK is free (as in beer). The bad news is that
>> Adobe makes only Win32 and OS X versions of it. Does anyone here have
>> any experience with it? Does it work in wine?
>>
>> Also, does anyone know any FOSS tool that uses Adobe feature files or
>> similar text based files (please not that thingie that converts fonts
>> to XML). Fontforge is supposed to be able to import fea files, but
>> currently it's broken (does nothing); maintainers have been
>> notified...
>>
>> -- Vasile
>>
>