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FontForge is a typeface editing tool.

FontForge is a typeface (font) editing program. FontForge supports many font formats, including TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, and SVG. It can convert fonts from one format to another.

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Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from inside Python

Is there a way to set specify during runtime where Python looks for shared libraries? I have fontforge.so located in fontforge_bin and tried the following os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']='fontforge_bin' sys.path.append('fontforge_bin') import…
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Creating icon fonts with vector software (i.e. inkscape) and fontforge?

Through getting some answers here and some research, I've come across a new approach to implementing icons. Rather than as images or css background, it seems you can approach icons as a font. Will this method ultimately mean creating a one file font…
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Copy/Paste Glyph/Character from one font file to another

I have two different font files FontFile1.otf and FontFile2.otf. I want to copy Unicode character at position 1759 from FontFile1.otf to FontFile2.otf. How can i do that? I tried to do it using FontForge and Fontographer but the paste doesn't seem…
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How to convert TTF to FNT with Fontforge

I have a TTF font, that needs to be converted in FNT (and ideally in pcf too). I tried Fontforge, but when I loaded font and chose to generate font - nothing could be selected from the list on the right, except "No bitmap fonts" though there was WIN…
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Prevent anti-aliasing (or sub-pixel rendering) of a TrueType font

This is how the .ttf font is rendered: I have created this vector-only TrueType font using FontForge. I want to use this font on applications which require vector-based glyphs, and do not support loading .ttf embedded bitmaps (which do not seem to…
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Delete all unused characters from a TTF-font with Fontforge

How can I delete all characters from a TTF font file that are not used in a given text sample with Fontforge? In other words I want to create a subset from an existing font which contains only the characters that actually show in my text. Here's a…
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Import a sequence of .svg files into FontForge as glyphs and output a font file

I want to create a font with a large volume of glyphs. Think Japanese kanji, in the thousands. So there will definitely be some scripting / batch processing required. Luckily FontForge supports python scripting! Unluckily I haven't been able to get…
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Fontforge: Export a glyph to SVG with fontforge command line

How to export a glyph (from its unicode) to SVG with Fontforge command line ? I also need to specify the font size and keep the original margins it has in the font.
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Fontforge Scripting how to add ligatures for a glyph

I'm making a font with scripting on Fontforge. Everything goes well, but I have this problem I don't know how to specify for a selected glyph that if two other glyphs came simultaneously show the selected glyph. I have already made the Lookuptable…
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fontforge - Script to merge fonts to add glyphs

I have two .ttf font files, one of which contains the glyphs that I need to merge to the other font file. Using the GUI, there will be a dialog box saying Do you want to retain kerning information from the selected font when one of the glyphs being…
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How to remove ligatures from a font using FontForge

I have a font with some ligature errors in it. This is causing problems in my Android application. I want to just remove the ligatures. How do I do that in FontForge? This question is related but it is going the other way. Fontforge Scripting how…
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Pip install fontforge, says Couldnot find a version

I have done, apt-get install fontforge on my ubuntu system. When i do import fontforge in my python code, it throws error as, No module named fontforge. When i do, pip install fontforge, it throws error as,, Could not find a version that satisfies…
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Adding glyphs to Fontforge

When I open Fontforge to create a new font, it only lists a limited set of characters / glyphs. In the font I create, I need some glyphs that are missing from that default set, e.g. "single right-pointing angle quotation mark" (U+203A) and "single…
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How to import fontforge to python in windows 7

Environment: Win 7, Python 3.4, Sublime Text 2 I am trying to use fontforge as in following example, by importing fontforge in *.py: import fontforge font = fontforge.open('blank.sfd') ... However, I haven't found any help for win 7 on where (or…
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Inverted glyph: bitmap > SVG via autotrace > glyph via fontforge

I am trying to create a font/glyph by: taking a bitmap image creating an SVG with autotrace (on Linux) importing the outline as a glyph with python-fontforge (glyph.importOutlines(svgfile) ) This works fine except that the resulting glyph in…
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