there seems to be a new tool for vfb to ufo conversion

[typemytype]

https://pypi.org/project/vfb2ufo3/

[jenskutilek]

It seems to run inside FontLab or at least require a working FontLab 5 installation. Or is there a way to import FL outside of actual FontLab?

[benkiel]

Not that I know of offhand

[jenskutilek]

Meanwhile there is indeed a new tool, vfb3ufo from https://github.com/LucasFonts/vfbLib :)

[typemytype]

Would be more then happy with a PR for Xmas!! :)

[jenskutilek]

Just found this old issue ... vfbLib can extract a UFO on it's own, would you still like to see this functionality also provided by extractor?

[benkiel]

Seeing that vfb3ufo is doing a much better job of VFB to UFO, maybe we should either take out VFB support or have a dependency on vfb3ufo for VFB support (#68 (comment))

[jenskutilek]

The comparison may be a bit unfair, as both tools have different goals.

But my guess is that VFB is becoming ever more irrelevant, so maybe support could be removed from extractor without any negative effects. vfb3ufo is there for the few who need it.

[benkiel]

Yes, more irrelevant, but I hesitate to take it out as folks may depend on it. @typemytype ?

[jenskutilek]

It's pretty easy to swap vfb2ufo with vfbLib: #70 :)