sfdnormalize 1.0.0

Discard GUI information from SFD files

SFD Normalize

Normalize Spline Font Database (SFD) files by discarding GUI state information making them easier to track in version control without clutter and conflicts between users.

$ sfdnormalize --help

usage: sfdnormalize [-h] [--replace] [--version] [--keep KEEP]
                    [--sfd-version VERSION]
                    input_file [output_file]
https://github.com/alerque/sfdnormalize
(For authors, see AUTHORS in source distribution.)

Normalize Spline Font Database (SFD) files

positional arguments:
  input_file            Input SFD before normalization
  output_file           Path to write normalized SFD (default: None)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --replace, -r         Replace in place (default: False)
  --version, -V         show program's version number and exit
  --keep KEEP, -k KEEP  Keep lines beginning with these even if they'd be
                        normally dropped. (Can provide multiple times.)
                        (default: None)
  --sfd-version VERSION, -s VERSION
                        By default, latest SFD revision known to this program
                        will be written, unless specified here (default: 3.2)

History

This script started life in the DejaVu Font project written in Perl (and dedicated to the Public Domain). At some point somebody rewrote it in Python, although I was unable to find any history between the latest Perl version and the first Python version that showed up in the Libertinus Font project.