Dragonfly Fonts

Wraps common font-related tasks into Dragonfly analysers and processors.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dragonfly_fonts'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install dragonfly_fonts

Dependencies

FontForge

You will need FontForge with Python extensions installed.

Using Homebrew:

$ brew install fontforge --enable-pyextension

Using debian/ubuntu packages:

$ sudo apt-get install fontforge python-fontforge

fonttools

See fonttools

ots-sanitize

See ots-sanitize

ttf2eot

See ttf2eot.

ttfautohint

See ttfautohint.

woff2

See woff2.

Usage

Add the :fonts plugin to your Dragonfly config block:

Dragonfly.app.configure do
  plugin :fonts
end

Supported Formats

List of supported formats is available as:

DragonflyFonts::SUPPORTED_FORMATS # => ["bdf", "dfont", "bin", …]
DragonflyFonts::SUPPORTED_OUTPUT_FORMATS # => ["eot", "ttf", …]

Analysers

Bbox

Returns Struct.new("Bbox", :glyph, :min_x, :min_y, :max_x, :max_y, :width, :height) representing the glyph's bounding box.

DragonflyFonts::Analysers::Bbox.new.call(font, glyph)

Font Info

Returns information about the font as a Hash with the following keys: :ascent, :cap_height, :comment, :copyright, :default_base_filename, :descent, :descriptor, :designer, :designer_url, :em, :embedding_restrictions, :encoding, :familyname, :fontlog, :fontname, :fullname, :license, :license_url, :path, :sfnt_revision, :trademark, :upos, :uwidth, :vendor_url, :version, :weight, :woff_metadata, :woff_revision, :x_height.

font.font_info

Glyphs

Returns Array of all glyphs contained in the font, each glyph represented by a Hash with the following keys: :glyphclass, :glyphname, :encoding, :script, :width, :unicode.

font.glyphs

GSUB Tables

Returns Array of gsub tables in the font.

font.gsub_tables

OTS Sanitize

Displays output of the ots-sanitize command.

font.ots_sanitize

Processors

Correct Metrics

Normalizes ascent and descent values.

font.correct_metrics

Encode

Allows for conversion to EOT, OTF, SVG, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2, TTX.

font.encode(:woff)

• OTF, SVG, TTF, WOFF conversion is handled by FontForge.
• EOT conversion is handled by ttf2eot. The input font needs to be in TTF format. Due to bug in IE, font FullName MUST begin with FamilyName. For example, if FamilyName is fontello, then FullName should be fontello regular and so on. In this condition is not satisfyed, then font will not be shown in IE.
• WOFF2 conversion is handled by woff2.
• TTX conversion is handled by ttx (fonttools).

Extract Glyph

Extracts specified glyph in SVG format.

font.extract_glyph('A')

Fix DFLT table

Fix for DFLT tables causing issues in Firefox 44.

font.fix_dflt_table

Normalize Names

Fix for rejected EOT's in IE8.

font.normalize_names

OTS

Sanitize OTF/TTF & WOFF/2 font files.

font.ots_sanitize!

Set Dimensions

Adjust ascent & descent by an increment of.

font.set_dimensions(ascent: 10, descent: -10)

Set TTF Names

Allows to set the following TTF properties: :compatible_full, :copyright, :description, :designer, :designer_url, :fontname, :fullname, :license, :license_url, :manufacturer, :postscript_cid, :postscript_name, :preferred_family, :preferred_subfamily, :sample_text, :trademark, :uid, :vendor_url, :version, :weight. See docs at Adobe for more details.

ttf_names = { designer: 'John Doe' }
font.set_ttf_names(ttf_names)

Set Underline

Allows to set underline properties: position and width.

font.set_underline({ upos: 1, uwidth: 1 })

Set Width

Sets width of each character. The relative parameter can have the following values:

• when 0 the vertical width will be set exactly to width value
• when 1 then the vertical width will be incremented by width value
• when 2 then the vertical width will be scaled by width value/100.0.

font.set_width(width, relative=1)

Set WOFF Metadata

Converts font to WOFF and sets license-related values of embedded XML metadata. The rest of the metadata is automatically inferred from font properties (see #set_ttf_names).

font.set_woff_metadata(uniqueid, licensee_name)

TTF autohint

Generates FreeType auto hints. See ttfautohint.

font.ttf_autohint

Web Friendly

Make web friendly.

font.web_friendly

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/tomasc/dragonfly_fonts/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request