image3font 1.0.1

A image's converter to font written in Fontforge/FontTools's Hy script.

Image3font
==========

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A image’s converter to font written in
`FontForge <https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge>`__/`FontTools <https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools>`__\ ’
`Hy <https://github.com/hylang/hy>`__ language and the futur of
`image2font <https://github.com/limaconoob/Image2font/>`__\ ’s
repository.

Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~

The `image3font <https://pypi.org/project/image3font>`__ package is
listed in the Python Package Index (PyPI), so you can install it with
pip:

::

pip install image3font

Usage
~~~~~

See command help:
::
-h, –help - show this help message and exit.
-v, –version - show the version and exit.
-m MANIFEST, –manifest MANIFEST - specify the manifest.

Layout
^^^^^^

*Image3font* uses conventions for file placement:

::

image3font.toml
src/

- **image3font.toml** stores in the root of your project.
- **image/SVG** goes in the **src** directory.

Dependency
~~~~~~~~~~

- `fontforge <https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge>`__ must be
installed.

Requirement
^^^^^^^^^^^

The requirements.txt describes the image3font\ ’s dependencies:

- `hy <https://github.com/hylang/hy>`__ - A dialect of Lisp that’s
embedded in Python.
- `fonttools <https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools>`__ - A
library to manipulate font files from Python.
- `docopt <https://github.com/docopt/docopt>`__ - Pythonic command
line arguments parser.
- `toml <https://github.com/uiri/toml>`__ - Python lib for TOML.

Manifest
~~~~~~~~

The *image3font.toml* file for each font is called its manifest. Every
manifest file consists of two fields and two sections:

- **path** (optional)
Fontpath of input font. If not specified this will be infered from a
empty font.

- **source** (default = “src”)
Can be used to configure the SVG’s directory.

[fontforge]’s section
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
List of fields according to `FontForge <https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/documentation/scripting/native>`__/Script’s
specification.

- **path**
Path where save the compiled font.

- **fontname**
Name contained in the postscript FontName field.

- **familyname** (default = “fontname”)
Name contained in the postscript FamilyName field. If not specified this
will be inferred as fontname.

- **fullname** (default = “fontname”)
Name contained in the postscript FullName field. If not specified this
will be inferred as fontname.

- **weight** (optional)
Name contained in the postscript Weight field.

- **copyright** (optional)
Name contained in the postscript Notice field.

- **version** (optional)
- **encoding** (default = “UnicodeFull”)
- **em** (default = 2028)

[fonttools]’s section
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

List of fields according to `FontTools/Name-IDs <https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm#nameIDs>`__\ ’s
specification.

- **copyright**
Copyright string from the font vendor. © Copyright the Monotype
Corporation plc, 1990.

- **familyname**
Name the user sees. Times New Roman

- **subfamilyname**
Name of the style. Bold

- **unique_id**
A unique identifier that applications can store to identify the font
being used. Monotype: Times New Roman Bold:1990

- **full_name**
Complete, unique, human readable name of the font. This name is used by
Windows. Times New Roman Bold

- **version**
Release and version information from the font vendor.
Version 1.00 June 1, 1990, initial release.

- **postscript_name**
Name the font will be known by on a PostScript printer. TimesNewRoman-Bold

- **trademark**
Trademark string. Times New Roman is a registered trademark of the Monotype
Corporation.

- **manufacturer**
Manufacturer. Monotype Corporation. plc

- **designer**
Designer. Stanley Morison

- **description**
Description. Designed in 1932 for the Times of London newspaper.
Excellent readability and a narrow overall width, allowing more words
per line than most fonts.

- **url_vendor**
URL of Vendor. http://www.monotype.com

- **url_designer**
URL of Designer. http://www.monotype.com

- **license**
License Description. This font may be installed on all of your machines
and printers, but you may not sell or give these fonts to anyone else.

- **url_license**
License Info URL. http://www.monotype.com/license

- **reserved**
Reserved.

- **preferred_familyname**
Preferred Family. No name string present, since it is the same as name
ID 1 (Font Family name).

- **preferred_subfamilyname**
Preferred Subfamily. No name string present, since it is the same as
name ID 2 (Font Subfamily name).

- **compatible_full**
Compatible Full (Macintosh only). No name string present, since it is
the same as name ID 4 (Full name).

- **sample_text**
Sample text. quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

- **postscript_cid**
PostScript CID findfont name. No name string present. Thus, the PostScript
Name defined by name ID 6 should be used with the “findfont” invocation
for locating the font in the context of a PostScript interpreter.

- **wws_familyname**
WWS family name: Since Times New Roman is a WWS font, this field does not
need to be specified. If the font contained styles such as “caption”,
“display”, “handwriting”, etc, that would be noted here.

- **wws_subfamilyname**
WWS subfamily name: Since Times New Roman is a WWS font, this field does
not need to be specified.

- **light_background**
Light background palette name. No name string present, since this is not
a color font.

- **dark_background**
Dark background palette name. No name string present, since this is not
a color font.

- **variations_postscript**
Variations PostScript name prefix. No name string present, since this is
not a variable font.

Knowledge
~~~~~~~~~

This is a reading list of material relevant to *Image3Font*. It includes
prior research that has - at one time or another - influenced the design
of *image3font*, as well as publications about *imag3font*.

- `SVG in OpenType <https://www.w3.org/2013/10/SVG_in_OpenType>`__ - SVG Glyphs in OpenType Specification.

- `Otspec <https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec>`__ - OpenType specification.

- `FontForge scripting <https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/documentation/scripting/native>`__ Writing scripts to change fonts
in FontForge.

- `Adobe Opentype <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_feature_file_syntax.html>`__ Adobe OpenType feature.

License
~~~~~~~

*Image3font*\ ’s code in this repo uses the `GNU GPL
v3 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>`__
`license <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adjivas/Image3font/master/LICENSE>`__.

Dependencies
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Many thanks goes to *command/etc*\ ’s project:

- `FontForge <https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge>`__ - `GNU GPL v3 license <https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/blob/master/LICENSE>`__.

- `FontTools <https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools>`__ - `MIT Open Source license <https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/blob/master/LICENSE>`__.

- `HyLang <https://github.com/hylang/hy>`__ - `MIT Open Source license <https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/LICENSE>`__.

- `docopt <https://github.com/docopt/docopt>`__ - `MIT Open Source license <https://github.com/docopt/docopt/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT>`__.

- `Toml <https://github.com/uiri/toml>`__ - `MIT Open Source license <https://github.com/uiri/toml/blob/master/LICENSE>`__.

- `Wikipedia (for the picture neko!) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgirl>`__.

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