Make pyfontaine work with fonttools or freetype-py depending on what is available

[davelab6]

Currently we use http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/ to access font data.

Let's use https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/ too

• freetype-py is tricky to install
• then we can run on pypy

[vitalyvolkov]

There hard to see how to get info about available glyph. I am sure that SFNT has that but could not find. Freetype-py has API of libfreetype so it was easy to use that API.

[vitalyvolkov]

https://github.com/davelab6/pyfontaine/commit/4ab8739c282280839211e0bf056980a6e0cb368a

[davelab6]

https://gist.github.com/behdad/fde0d94c08328cc38c08 is an example of how to access glyphs

also http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tools/genmetadata/genmetadata.py

Can you make it so pyfontaine works with fonttools or freetype-py depending on what is available?

[vitalyvolkov]

https://github.com/davelab6/pyfontaine/commit/401619b6fac95bac2d22ed9cc082d513f8a9e6d9

[davelab6]

fontTools has italicAngle which if is non-zero then its italic. Also you can grep for "Italic" in the name table - https://github.com/xen/fontbakery/commit/e53ee499b3518efa546a336f2b7ca1a008703c5acan help show how to do this.

For weight, fontTools has weightClass

[vitalyvolkov]

Yes, that worked

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Dave Crossland notifications@github.comwrote:

fontTools has italicAngle which if is non-zero then its italic. Also you can grep for "Italic" in the name table -

https://github.com/xen/fontbakery/commit/e53ee499b3518efa546a336f2b7ca1a008703c5acan help show how to do this.

For weight, fontTools has weightClass

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Vitaly Volkov Python Developer