morisawa-inc / glyphspython

A past attempt to provide a Python REPL which works as a headless version of Glyphs 2.

glyphspython

NOTE: this project is super experimental and has been abandoned as the dependency doesn't support arm64. It's here as a proof-of-concept for reference just in case. This tool was originally designed to be the ffpython equivalent in FontForge.

An attempt to provide a Python interpreter which works as a headless version of Glyphs.app.

Prerequisites

• OS X 10.9.x or later
• Glyphs 2.3.x or later

Make sure that your Glyphs.app exists in the /Applications directory.

Installation

Unzip the archive and run glyphspython from the shell.

Usage

Just works as a vanilla Python interpreter except you have an access to the classes available in Glyphs.app.

$ glyphspython -c 'print(Glyphs.versionNumber)'
2.6

$ glyphspython
Python 2.7.16 (default, Jan 27 2020, 04:46:15) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.37.14)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> Glyphs.versionNumber
2.6

In case you need register a license before running a script, pass --register-license <path-to-license-file> to the command:

$ glyphspython --register-license 'John Doe.glyphs2License'

If you are interested in running a specific version of Glyphs apart from the latest stable release, set the environment variable GLYPHSAPP_PATH and give the location for the alternative Glyphs installation you want to use:

$ GLYPHSAPP_PATH='/Applications/Glyphs 2.4.1 (983).app' glyphspython -c 'print(Glyphs.versionNumber)'
2.4

The versions and the locations of your Glyphs installation can be listed via the --list-versions option:

$ glyphspython --list-versions
2.6.4 (1286)	/Applications/Glyphs.app
2.6.3 (1271)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.6.3 (1271).app
2.6.2 (1268)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.6.2 (1268).app
2.6.1 (1230)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.6.1 (1230).app
2.5.1 (1141)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.5.1 (1141).app
2.4.4 (1075)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.4.4 (1075).app
2.4.3 (1064)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.4.3 (1064).app
2.4.1 (983)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.6.3 (1271).app
2.3.1 (897)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.3.1 (897).app
2.3 (895)	/Applications/Glyphs 2.3 (895).app

License

Apache License 2.0