font2png

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Convert characters in a font file to png pictures.

This project is inited from fontforge, and simply does the two modifications:

• delete code unrelated to font-image conversion
• make it installable by python3 setup.py install

Great thanks to fontforge and all it's authors.

1. How to install

1.1 first prepare system dependencies:

sudo apt install libjpeg-dev && \
  libtiff5-dev && \
  libpng-dev && \
  libfreetype6-dev && \
  libgif-dev && \
  libxml2-dev && \
  libpango1.0-dev  && \
  python3-dev && \
  cmake && \
  build-essential

1.2 then install this package by python3:

python3 setup.py install

2. How to use it

# example.py
from font2png import font2png

font_file = "data/fontscn_3jqwe90k.ttf"


def main():
    font_mapping = font2png(font_file)
    for character, data in font_mapping.items():
        print(character, data)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()