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wareya / makefont-kanjivg

A basic script to generate a font from the kanjivg svg path data.
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How do you get fontforge to work with this thing? (Or, can you provide the ttf file?) #3

Open SpongebobSquamirez opened 4 years ago

SpongebobSquamirez commented 4 years ago

I had assumed you can just install the python package fontforge (and maybe a couple other things) and then run this in such a way that it can locate the kanjivg files. However, fontforge seems to be some overengineered piece of crap that can't even be run in python easily. I've installed fontforge and looked at this solution (where it seems like the solution is to just give up), but I still don't know what I should do (I have python 3 btw).

The best guess I have is that you need to apply the fixes from #2 and then run this INSIDE fontforge somehow (not sure how fontforge gets access to the other necessary packages, though). I'd really appreciate some guidance on how to get this working, or perhaps just a straight up ttf file of the current version of kanjivg if you have that, since that's what I really want.

wareya commented 4 years ago

Fontforge embeds its own copy of the python interpreter, which is what I used for this, its documentation is here: https://fontforge.github.io/python.html

I'm sure it's possible to get working with a separate python installation... somehow... but don't know any specifics.