kalehmann / PySFedit

PySFedit is a graphical editor for PC Screen Fonts written in Python3 using the Gtk+-binding pygobject.

PySFedit

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Summary

PySFedit is an editor for pc screen fonts written in Python3 with the Gtk+-binding pygobject.

The main features of the application are creating headers for a font, painting glyph bitmaps, adding unicode information for glyhps and exporting the font to many formats. Supported are binary psf files, gzip compressed psf files and even assembler files.

Installation

Simply run # python3 setup.py install to install it globally for all users on your system. If you do not have root privilegs or want to install PySFedit only for yourself, you can use $ python3 setup.py install --user

Running without installation

Install the following dependencies:

• gir1.2-gtk-3.0
• python3
• python3-pillow
• python3-gi
• python3-gi-cairo
  Then you can run PySFedit with python3 bin/pysfedit

Further development

Running unit tests

$ xvfb-run -a python3 -m unittest -v

Adding translations

This application uses gettext for internationalization. First extract the strings with the following command inside the pysfedit directory: $ xgettext --keyword=_ --language=python -o res/locale/pysfedit.pot *.py

After that you can use poedit to edit existing translations or add new ones.