https://github.com/dfrankland/node-fonttools

🖋 Native bindings to `fonttools` to decompile and compile fonts.
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🖋 Native bindings to `fonttools` to decompile and compile fonts.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dfrankland/node-fonttools
• Owner: dfrankland
• Created: 2017-02-06T02:33:47.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-07-03T16:08:35.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-07T13:43:02.679Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fonttools
• Size: 177 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# `node-fonttools`

> Native bindings to [`fonttools`][1] to decompile and compile fonts.

## How It Works

[`fonttools`][1] (also known as TTX) is a library for manipulating fonts,

written in Python.  It supports TrueType, OpenType, AFM and to an extent Type 1,

and some Mac-specific formats. Using [Addons][2] it's possible to bridge Python

to Node, natively, using C++ and Python's [Python/C API][3]—which is

exactly what `node-fontools` does.

## Current Status

So far, the only functions that have been bridged are the abilities to decompile

fonts to XML and compile XML to font binary.

### Requirements

Python 2.7 is the only supported version at the moment.

## How To Use

```js

import fonttools from 'fonttools';

import { readFileSync } from 'fs';

// Get the `decompile` and `compile` methods

const { decompile, compile } = fonttools();

// Read a font file as a buffer

const fontBuffer = readFileSync('font.ttf');

// Decompile the font to another buffer

const fontXMLBuffer = decompile(fontBuffer);

// Insert logic here to manipulate font

// Compile font from an XML file as a buffer

const fontBinaryBuffer = compile(fontXMLBuffer);

// Insert logic to save font file buffer here

```

### `fonttools`

A function that takes a path to [`fonttools/Lib`][4] and returns an object with

two methods: `decompile` and `compile`. By default it uses the [included

submodule][5].

#### `decompile`

Takes a font file buffer and returns another buffer with the XML of the

decompiled font.

#### `compile`

Takes an XML file buffer and returns another buffer with the compiled font file

binary.

> More on [Node Buffers][6]

[1]: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools

[2]: https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html

[3]: https://docs.python.org/2/c-api/

[4]: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/master/Lib

[5]: https://github.com/dfrankland/node-fonttools/blob/master/.gitmodules

[6]: https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html