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https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep

🔣 The missing font generator for Mac OSX.
https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep

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🔣 The missing font generator for Mac OSX.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep
Owner: briangonzalez
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2014-01-23T08:25:40.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2017-10-19T16:55:33.000Z (about 7 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-10-15T09:56:29.474Z (20 days ago)
Language: JavaScript
Homepage:
Size: 90.6 MB
Stars: 1,229
Watchers: 69
Forks: 72
Open Issues: 6
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        
### 🚨 FontPrep is no longer maintained and has been superceded by [fontplop](https://github.com/matthewgonzalez/fontplop) 🚨

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 FontPrep

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The missing font generator for Mac OSX. _[Download here](https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep/releases)._

About

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FontPrep takes your TTF and OTF font files and generates all of the respective font-formats for the web: WOFF, EOT, and SVG.

How it works

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FontPrep uses a slightly modified version of cocoa-rack (https://github.com/briangonzalez/cocoa-rack). In essence, when you start FontPrep, you're starting a little Sinatra app on port 7500 then instantiating a webview pointing at that server.

Commands are sent from the webview back down to the Sinatra server as you interact with FontPrep, and commands are piped to stdout (be it FontForge, ttf2eot, etc.) to complete the given task. We use a little Applescript magic when necessary.

The main Sinatra logic lives inside of `fontprep/server`. The sinatra server is daemonized, meanings its process will persist across closing/opening of FontPrep. To kill FontPrep's server outright, visit `http://127.0.0.1:7500/kill` in your browser.

Building FontPrep

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Simply open up `FontPrep.xcodeproj` with the latest version of XCode, go to `Product -> Clean` then `Product -> Run` or `Product -> Archive` to create a binary.

Updating FontPrep

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Be sure to increment the `Version` and `Bundle` inside XCode to update FontPrep correctly. Incrementing these values is what tells FontPrep to kill old daemonized server processes.

A word of caution

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This code has not been incredibly well maintained over the years. Tread lightly and have fun breaking FontPrep.

Demo

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Watch a demo [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4nF3GHHOw-E).

Collaborators

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| ![twitter/brianmgonzalez](http://gravatar.com/avatar/f6363fe1d9aadb1c3f07ba7867f0e854?s=70) |

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| [Brian Gonzalez](http://briangonzalez.org) |

| ![twitter/artisfacto](https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1775184?v=4&s=70) |

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| [Matthew Gonzalez](http://matthewgonzalez.me) |