Adobe FDK under wine? Or similar FOSS tool?

[Vasile Gaburici]

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
>