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DevonDahon
DevonDahon

Reputation: 8350

Fontforge: Export a glyph to SVG with fontforge command line

How to export a glyph (from its unicode) to SVG with Fontforge command line ?

I also need to specify the font size and keep the original margins it has in the font.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 10617

Answers (3)

user7369463
user7369463

Reputation: 174

My PowerShell script for Windows 10 (execute from FontForge directory, i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\FontForgeBuilds\bin):

.\fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export($2); endloop;' 8bitlim.ttf '%n-%e.svg'

A version that reads all fonts from a subdirectory "fonts" and extracts glyphs:

$files = Get-ChildItem "fonts"

for ($i=0; $i -lt $files.Count; $i++) { $infile = "fonts" + $files[$i].Name .\fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export($2); endloop;' $infile '%n-%e.svg' }

Upvotes: 1

Berry Tsakala
Berry Tsakala

Reputation: 16600

On Windows os (Tested on win10)

this is from inside a BATCH file:

c:\Programs\FontForge\bin\fontforge.exe -lang=ff -c "Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export('%%e_%%f_%%n_%%u.eps'); endloop;" %1

this is directly on the command line:

c:\Programs\FontForge\bin\fontforge.exe -lang=ff -c "Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export('%e_%f_%n_%u.eps'); endloop;" font-file.ttf

note - the color is not exported. And I don't know if it's unimplemented, or a bug.

Upvotes: 1

Kyle K.
Kyle K.

Reputation: 366

You may have found your answer already, but I just had to do this with the latest build of FontForge. The old answer of this command:

fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export("svg"); endloop;' font.ttf

From a command prompt didn't want to work on Windows10 (I assume a permission issue), but you could give it a try. A quick work-around is to do it via the GUI Execute Script.

  • Run FontForge (For Windows10 installed in the Program Files (x86) directory, you may need to right-click "run_fontforge.exe" --> Run As Administrator).

  • Open the font you want to export.

  • Go to File > Execute Script

  • Paste: SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export("svg"); endloop;
  • Select "FF" radial button.
  • Hit OK

It'll save to the FontForge folder (where run_fontforge.exe is located).

Upvotes: 32

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