Tips for running scripts on OSX

Question

krisbulman opened this issue 13 years ago · comments

Install homebrew

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
run the following command

$ brew install fontforge
If you have trouble, see the following ticket:

Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#10714 (comment)
homebrew does not install the py extensions for fontforge, but it does build an with embedded python interpreter. To run a script using homebrew's python interpreter, use the following command

$ fontforge -script whatever.py

P.J. Onori · Answer 1 · Thu Mar 15 2012 00:51:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you sir! Would you mind if I added this to the wiki?

Kris Bot · Answer 2 · Thu Mar 15 2012 01:24:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

sure thing, environments may differ, so i will update it as i install it on other boxes

Andy Vanee · Answer 3 · Mon Mar 19 2012 14:28:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Works for me as well, though I arrived at the same solution via this thread:

fontforge -script iconic_stroke.py

P.J. Onori · Answer 4 · Tue Mar 20 2012 02:12:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is good to hear. For some reason, it didn't work for me, I need to do a little more research as to why that was the case.