What application have you recently discovered?

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Tinkering with EPUBs, I just discovered:

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/python-fonttools/ 2026 @ June 23, 2026

It makes …

# OTF + TXT => OTF 
#
# Create a (smaller) font file, holding only characters
# specified in a textfile, disregard all other
# in the original and large font file.
#
# Original: HanWangKai-Font.otf (16 MB)
# Subset: HanWangKai-SUBSET.otf (230 KB)
#
# Practical use: faster websites and smaller epub.

pyftsubset HanWangKai-Font.otf --text-file=chinese.txt --output-file=HanWangKai-SUBSET.otf --no-subset-tables+=FFTM

@Bink

1796

That’d be really useful for creating an optimised .woff2 file for web apps, containing only the characters necessary.

1797

Is it possible to do this with LibreOffice and PDFs too?

1798

LaTeX and PDFs automatically use subsets.

This is a (600kb) pdf export from WPS Office:
»Eingebetteter Teilsatz« = embeded subset.

docx probably doesn’t contain any fonts.

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1799

Thanks! I did not know about detox :smiley:

1800

para_equalizer_x16_stereo
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I’m a professional audio engineer and I’ve been locked into the Waves ecosystem, much to my chagrin of my walled for the past 25 years. But now I have discovered lsp-plugins and I’ve pretty much switched over. Which also means moving my production infrastructure from MacOS since these are only available on Linux and BSD systems. (Reaper for BSD, please!)

1801

What’s your opinion on ardour?

1802

Does anyone have a good alternative to SwayOSD that would work on Hyprland ? I’ve had some issues with Swayosd since i installed it, and while it look nice i’m getting tired of those quirks, i also have dunst as a fallback but … meh …