Webfont generator for type store

Rodrigo Saiani
Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
edited February 2013 in Type Business
Do you know a webfont generator "plug in" that would export webfonts on the fly good for use in tiny type stores?
How do you go about selling webfonts on your store?
Best regards
Rodrigo
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  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,429
    What language do you want a web font format converter library for? FontForge has a python binding, and WebINK and Google Web Fonts use https://code.google.com/p/sfntly/
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 1,992
    Rainer just posted a shell script for generating batches of web fonts to his Github repository: https://github.com/mekkablue/webfontmaker

    It’s Mac-centric but should be adaptable to other environs.
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    I'm using PHP for the store. Will read through these two, thanks!
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    I've tested the options you mentioned and really like Mekkablue's webfont maker. The only thing I've missed is TTF exporting, is there a tool for that?
    Best
    Rodrigo
  • Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
    Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157
    The only thing I've missed is TTF exporting, is there a tool for that?
    Huh? The webfontmaker also produces (autohinted and unhinted) TTFs. They’re necessary for making EOTs.

    BTW I just simplified the webfontmaker script: no more WOFF test files, no more DSIG injection. It now needs fewer installs.
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    Is there a specific command to export the ttf's? It didn't really work for me… I'll try to grab the latest version and see how it goes. Only Woffs and SVGs were exported in my tries.
    Thanks!
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    Now I see, I'm seeing an error in fontforge. I guess all the initial installs weren't as smooth as I thought. Will try again!
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    Got it now Mekkablue, just started the installation from scratch and it all worked fine now. Thanks for the great tool!
  • Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
    Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157
    Totally oversaw your last posts. But congrats on getting the fontforge installation done. I agree it’s a pain to install.
  • PabloImpallari
    PabloImpallari Posts: 806
    Does this works if you use the drag-and-drop FF instal* instead?

    * http://fontforge.github.com/en-US/downloads/mac.html
  • Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
    Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157
    [EDIT to my last post:] instead of ‘oversaw’ I meant to say, ‘overlooked’ in the sense of ‘missed’. Germanisms…

    Thx for the link, Pablo, will try. The thing is, brew install fontforge should suffice. But he fontforge installation I get then simply does not work. At least I couldn’t get it to work in OS X 10.8. That’s why I need that weird custom brew recipe.
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    No problem Rainer, it's all good now, your tool is a great time saver!
    Quick question
    Is it possible to export only the autohinted version of ttfs/eots for example?
  • Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
    Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157
    Yes, feel free to edit the shellscript yourself. You can disable a line by commenting it out, i.e. adding a # at the beginning.
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    Hi Rainer, I got it to work on one computer but tried installing on others and fontforge for some reason will never export the ttf's. It's definitely something with FontForge, have you had this issue come up before? Do you know a solution?

    Here's a couple of lines from the output:
    Creating MyWebfont.ttf and MyWebfont.svg ...
    webfontmaker.sh: line 48: fontforge: command not found

    And from there, nothing that depends on the ttfs happen.

    Thanks!
  • Jack Jennings
    Jack Jennings Posts: 151
    Rodrigo, I dont have experience with font forge, but based on the output you got, either font forge didn't install properly, or it is installed somewhere that isn't included in your $PATH shell variable.

    If you open up Terminal and type `fontforge` without quotes, do you get the same thing as above?
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    Yes I do Jack, thanks.
    Do you know how to fix the $PATH Shell variable?
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    I tried going through the steps presented at https://github.com/anoxic/fontforge-docs/blob/master/src/running.md for fixing the Path variable but I keep getting the command not found.
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/9953 Found this and I have no idea how but this line: sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/fontforge/20110222/FontForge.app /Application
    helped.
  • Rodrigo Saiani
    Rodrigo Saiani Posts: 78
    working now!
  • satya
    satya Posts: 17
    Give this a try: http://www.type-applications.com/home

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