#!/usr/bin/env python2 # coding=utf8 # version: 0.8.0 version = "0.8.0" projectName = "Nerd Fonts" projectNameAbbreviation = "NF" projectNameSingular = projectName[:-1] import sys try: import psMat except ImportError: sys.stderr.write(projectName + ": FontForge module is probably not installed. [See: http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Installing_Fontforge.html]\n") sys.exit(1) import re import os import argparse import errno try: #Load the module import fontforge except ImportError: sys.stderr.write(projectName + ": FontForge module could not be loaded. Try installing fontforge python bindings [e.g. on Linux Debian or Ubuntu: `sudo apt-get install fontforge python-fontforge`]\n") sys.exit(1) # argparse stuff parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Patches a given font with programming and web development related glyphs (mainly for https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons)') parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version', version=projectName + ": %(prog)s ("+version+")") parser.add_argument('font', help='The path to the font to be patched (e.g. Inconsolata.otf)') parser.add_argument('-s', '--use-single-width-glyphs', dest='single', action='store_true', help='Whether to generate the glyphs as single-width not double-width (default is double-width)', default=False) parser.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', '--shutup', dest='quiet', action='store_true', help='Do not generate verbose output', default=False) parser.add_argument('-w', '--windows', '--limit-font-name-length', dest='windows', action='store_true', help='Limit the internal font name to a maximum of 31 characters (for safe Windows compatiblity)', default=False) parser.add_argument('-c', '--complete', dest='complete', action='store_true', help='Add all availale Glyphs', default=False) parser.add_argument('--fontawesome', dest='fontawesome', action='store_true', help='Add Font Awesome Glyphs (http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome)', default=False) parser.add_argument('--fontlinux', dest='fontlinux', action='store_true', help='Add Font Linux Glyphs (https://github.com/Lukas-W/font-linux)', default=False) parser.add_argument('--octicons', dest='octicons', action='store_true', help='Add Octicons Glyphs (https://octicons.github.com)', default=False) parser.add_argument('--pomicons', dest='pomicons', action='store_true', help='Add Pomicon Glyphs (https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons)', default=False) parser.add_argument('--powerline', dest='powerline', action='store_true', help='Add Powerline Glyphs', default=False) parser.add_argument('--powerlineextra', dest='powerlineextra', action='store_true', help='Add Powerline Glyphs (https://github.com/ryanoasis/powerline-extra-symbols)', default=False) parser.add_argument('--careful', dest='careful', action='store_true', help='Do not overwrite existing glyphs if detected', default=False) parser.add_argument('-ext', '--extension', type=str, nargs='?', dest='extension', help='Change type of font file to create (e.g. ttf, otf)', default="") parser.add_argument('-out', '--outputdir', type=str, nargs='?', dest='outputdir', help='The directory to output the patched font file to', default=".") args = parser.parse_args() changelog = open("changelog.md", "r") minimumVersion = 20141231 actualVersion = int(fontforge.version()) # un-comment following line for testing invalid version error handling #actualVersion = 20120731 # versions tested: 20150612, 20150824 if actualVersion < minimumVersion: print projectName + ": You seem to be using an unsupported (old) version of fontforge: " + str(actualVersion) print projectName + ": Please use at least version: " + str(minimumVersion) sys.exit(1) verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix = " " + projectNameSingular if args.complete: args.fontawesome = True args.fontlinux = True args.octicons = True args.pomicons = True args.powerline = True args.powerlineextra = True if args.windows: # attempt to shorten here on the additional name BEFORE trimming later additionalFontNameSuffix = " " + projectNameAbbreviation else: additionalFontNameSuffix = verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix if args.fontawesome: additionalFontNameSuffix += " A" verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix += " Plus Font Awesome" if args.octicons: additionalFontNameSuffix += " O" verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix += " Plus Octicons" if args.pomicons: additionalFontNameSuffix += " P" verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix += " Plus Pomicons" if args.fontlinux: additionalFontNameSuffix += " L" verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix += " Plus Font Linux" # if all source glyphs included simplify the name if args.fontawesome and args.octicons and args.pomicons and args.powerlineextra and args.fontlinux: additionalFontNameSuffix = " " + projectNameSingular + " C" verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix = " " + projectNameSingular + " Complete" # add mono signifier to end of name if args.single: additionalFontNameSuffix += " M" verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix += " Mono" sourceFont = fontforge.open(args.font) # basically split the font name around the dash "-" to get the fontname and the style (e.g. Bold) # this does not seem very reliable so only use the style here as a fallback if the font does not # have an internal style defined (in sfnt_names) # using '([^-]*?)' to get the item before the first dash "-" # using '([^-]*(?!.*-))' to get the item after the last dash "-" fontname, fallbackStyle = re.match("^([^-]*).*?([^-]*(?!.*-))$", sourceFont.fontname).groups() # dont trust 'sourceFont.familyname' familyname = fontname # fullname (filename) can always use long/verbose font name, even in windows fullname = sourceFont.fullname + verboseAdditionalFontNameSuffix fontname = fontname + additionalFontNameSuffix.replace(" ", "") # let us try to get the 'style' from the font info in sfnt_names and fallback to the # parse fontname if it fails: try: # search tuple: subFamilyTupleIndex = [x[1] for x in sourceFont.sfnt_names].index("SubFamily") # String ID is at the second index in the Tuple lists sfntNamesStringIDIndex = 2 # now we have the correct item: subFamily = sourceFont.sfnt_names[sfntNamesStringIDIndex][subFamilyTupleIndex] except IndexError: print projectName + ": Could not find 'SubFamily' for given font, falling back to parsed fontname" subFamily = fallbackStyle # some fonts have inaccurate 'SubFamily', if it is Regular let us trust the filename more: if subFamily == "Regular": subFamily = fallbackStyle if args.windows: maxFamilyLength = 31 maxFontLength = maxFamilyLength-len('-' + subFamily) familyname += " " + projectNameAbbreviation fullname += " Windows Compatible" # now make sure less than 32 characters name length if len(fontname) > maxFontLength: fontname = fontname[:maxFontLength] if len(familyname) > maxFamilyLength: familyname = familyname[:maxFamilyLength] else: familyname += " " + projectNameSingular # Don't truncate the subfamily to keep fontname unique. MacOS treats fonts with # the same name as the same font, even if subFamily is different. fontname += '-' + subFamily # rename font def replace_all(text, dic): for i, j in dic.iteritems(): text = text.replace(i, j) return text def make_sure_path_exists(path): try: os.makedirs(path) except OSError as exception: if exception.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise make_sure_path_exists(args.outputdir) # comply with SIL Open Font License (OFL) reservedFontNameReplacements = { 'source': 'sauce', 'Source': 'Sauce', 'hermit': 'hurmit', 'Hermit': 'Hurmit', 'fira': 'fura', 'Fira': 'Fura', 'hack': 'knack', 'Hack': 'Knack' } projectInfo = "Patched with '" + projectName + " Patcher' (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts)" sourceFont.familyname = replace_all(familyname, reservedFontNameReplacements) sourceFont.fullname = replace_all(fullname, reservedFontNameReplacements) sourceFont.fontname = replace_all(fontname, reservedFontNameReplacements) sourceFont.appendSFNTName('English (US)', 'Preferred Family', sourceFont.familyname) sourceFont.appendSFNTName('English (US)', 'Compatible Full', sourceFont.fullname) sourceFont.appendSFNTName('English (US)', 'SubFamily', subFamily) sourceFont.comment = projectInfo sourceFont.fontlog = projectInfo + "\n\n" + changelog.read() # todo version not being set for all font types (e.g. ttf) #print "Version was " + sourceFont.version sourceFont.version += ";" + projectName + " " + version #print "Version now is " + sourceFont.version # Prevent glyph encoding position conflicts between glyph sets octiconsExactEncodingPosition = True if args.fontawesome and args.octicons: octiconsExactEncodingPosition = False fontlinuxExactEncodingPosition = True if args.fontawesome or args.octicons: fontlinuxExactEncodingPosition = False # Define the character ranges # Symbol font ranges PATCH_SET = [ { 'Enabled': True, 'Filename': "original-source.otf", 'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE4FA, 'SymEnd': 0xE52A, 'SrcStart': 0xE5FA, 'SrcEnd': 0xE62A, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': True, 'Filename': "devicons.ttf", 'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE600, 'SymEnd': 0xE6C5, 'SrcStart': 0xE700, 'SrcEnd': 0xE7C5, 'ScaleGlyph': 0xE60E }, # Android logo { 'Enabled': args.powerline, 'Filename': "PowerlineSymbols.otf", 'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE0A0, 'SymEnd': 0xE0A2, 'SrcStart': 0xE0A0, 'SrcEnd': 0xF295, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': args.powerline, 'Filename': "PowerlineSymbols.otf", 'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE0B0, 'SymEnd': 0xE0B3, 'SrcStart': 0xE0B0, 'SrcEnd': 0xE0B3, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': args.powerlineextra, 'Filename': "PowerlineExtraSymbols.otf",'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE0A3, 'SymEnd': 0xE0A3, 'SrcStart': 0xE0A3, 'SrcEnd': 0xE0A3, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': args.powerlineextra, 'Filename': "PowerlineExtraSymbols.otf",'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE0B4, 'SymEnd': 0xE0C8, 'SrcStart': 0xE0B4, 'SrcEnd': 0xE0C8, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': args.powerlineextra, 'Filename': "PowerlineExtraSymbols.otf",'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE0CC, 'SymEnd': 0xE0D4, 'SrcStart': 0xE0CC, 'SrcEnd': 0xE0D4, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': args.pomicons, 'Filename': "Pomicons.otf", 'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xE000, 'SymEnd': 0xE00A, 'SrcStart': 0xE000, 'SrcEnd': 0xE00A, 'ScaleGlyph': None }, { 'Enabled': args.fontawesome, 'Filename': "FontAwesome.otf", 'Exact': True, 'SymStart': 0xF000, 'SymEnd': 0xF295, 'SrcStart': 0xF000, 'SrcEnd': 0xF295, 'ScaleGlyph': 0xF17A }, # Windows logo { 'Enabled': args.fontlinux, 'Filename': "font-linux.ttf", 'Exact': fontlinuxExactEncodingPosition, 'SymStart': 0xF100, 'SymEnd': 0xF115, 'SrcStart': 0xF300, 'SrcEnd': 0xF315, 'ScaleGlyph': 0xF10E }, # Ubuntu logo { 'Enabled': args.octicons, 'Filename': "octicons.ttf", 'Exact': octiconsExactEncodingPosition, 'SymStart': 0xF000, 'SymEnd': 0xF0DB, 'SrcStart': 0xF400, 'SrcEnd': 0xF4DB, 'ScaleGlyph': 0xF02E }, # Magnifying glass ] SYM_ATTR = { # Right/left-aligned glyphs will have their advance width reduced in order to overlap the next glyph slightly 0x2b60: { 'align': 'c', 'stretch': 'y' , 'overlap': False }, 0x2b61: { 'align': 'c', 'stretch': '' , 'overlap': False }, 0x2b62: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': '' , 'overlap': False }, 0x2b63: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': '' , 'overlap': False }, 0x2b64: { 'align': 'c', 'stretch': '' , 'overlap': False }, 0x2b80: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0x2b81: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0x2b82: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0x2b83: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, # Powerline dividers # Arrow tips 0xe0b0: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b1: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b2: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b3: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, # Rounded arcs 0xe0b4: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b5: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b6: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b7: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, # Bottom Triangles 0xe0b8: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0b9: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0ba: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0bb: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, # Top Triangles 0xe0bc: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0bd: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0be: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0bf: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, # Flames 0xe0c0: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0c1: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0c2: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0c3: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, # Small squares 0xe0c4: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, 0xe0c5: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, # Bigger squares 0xe0c6: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, 0xe0c7: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, # Waveform 0xe0c8: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, # Hexagons 0xe0cc: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, 0xe0cd: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, # Legos 0xe0ce: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, 0xe0cf: { 'align': 'c', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, 0xe0d1: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': False }, # Top and bottom trapezoid 0xe0d2: { 'align': 'l', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, 0xe0d4: { 'align': 'r', 'stretch': 'xy', 'overlap': True }, } SYM_ATTR_DEFAULT = { # 'pa' == preserve aspect ratio 'align': 'c', 'stretch': 'pa', 'overlap': False } # win_ascent and win_descent are used to set the line height for windows fonts. # hhead_ascent and hhead_descent are used to set the line height for mac fonts. # # Make the total line size even. This seems to make the powerline separators # center more evenly. if (sourceFont.os2_winascent + sourceFont.os2_windescent) % 2 != 0: sourceFont.os2_winascent += 1 # Make the line size identical for windows and mac sourceFont.hhea_ascent = sourceFont.os2_winascent sourceFont.hhea_descent = -sourceFont.os2_windescent # Initial font dimensions font_dim = { 'xmin' : 0, 'ymin' : -sourceFont.os2_windescent, 'xmax' : 0, 'ymax' : sourceFont.os2_winascent, 'width' : 0, 'height': 0, } # Find the biggest char width # Ignore the y-values, os2_winXXXXX values set above are used for line height # # 0x00-0x17f is the Latin Extended-A range for glyph in range(0x00, 0x17f): try: (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax) = sourceFont[glyph].boundingBox() except TypeError: continue if font_dim['width'] < sourceFont[glyph].width: font_dim['width'] = sourceFont[glyph].width if xmax > font_dim['xmax']: font_dim['xmax'] = xmax # Calculate font height font_dim['height'] = abs(font_dim['ymin']) + font_dim['ymax'] # Update the font encoding to ensure that the Unicode glyphs are available sourceFont.encoding = 'ISO10646' # Fetch this property before adding outlines onlybitmaps = sourceFont.onlybitmaps def get_dim(glyph): bbox = glyph.boundingBox() return { 'xmin' : bbox[0], 'ymin' : bbox[1], 'xmax' : bbox[2], 'ymax' : bbox[3], 'width' : bbox[2] + (-bbox[0]), 'height': bbox[3] + (-bbox[1]), } def set_width(sourceFont, width): sourceFont.selection.all() for glyph in sourceFont.selection.byGlyphs: glyph.width = width def get_scale_factor(font_dim, sym_dim): scale_ratio = 1 # We want to preserve x/y aspect ratio, so find biggest scale factor that allows symbol to fit scale_ratio_x = font_dim['width'] / sym_dim['width'] # font_dim['height'] represents total line height, keep our symbols sized based upon font's em scale_ratio_y = sourceFont.em / sym_dim['height'] if scale_ratio_x > scale_ratio_y: scale_ratio = scale_ratio_y else: scale_ratio = scale_ratio_x return scale_ratio def copy_glyphs(sourceFont, sourceFontStart, sourceFontEnd, symbolFont, symbolFontStart, symbolFontEnd, exactEncoding=False, scaleGlyph=None): if exactEncoding is False: sourceFontList = [] sourceFontCounter = 0 for i in xrange(sourceFontStart, sourceFontEnd + 1): sourceFontList.append(format(i, 'X')) scale_factor = 0 if scaleGlyph: sym_dim = get_dim(symbolFont[scaleGlyph]) scale_factor = get_scale_factor(font_dim, sym_dim) # Create glyphs from symbol font symbolFont.selection.select(("ranges","unicode"),symbolFontStart,symbolFontEnd) sourceFont.selection.select(("ranges","unicode"),sourceFontStart,sourceFontEnd) for sym_glyph in symbolFont.selection.byGlyphs: try: sym_attr = SYM_ATTR[sym_glyph.unicode] except KeyError: sym_attr = SYM_ATTR_DEFAULT glyphName = sym_glyph.glyphname if exactEncoding: # use the exact same hex values for the source font as for the symbol font currentSourceFontGlyph = sym_glyph.encoding copiedToSlot = str(sym_glyph.unicode) else: # use source font defined hex values based on passed in start and end # convince that this string really is a hex: currentSourceFontGlyph = int("0x" + sourceFontList[sourceFontCounter], 16) copiedToSlot = sourceFontList[sourceFontCounter] if args.quiet == False: print "updating glyph: " + str(sym_glyph) + " " + str(sym_glyph.glyphname) + " putting at: " + str(copiedToSlot) # Prepare symbol glyph dimensions sym_dim = get_dim(sym_glyph) # Select and copy symbol from its encoding point symbolFont.selection.select(sym_glyph.encoding) symbolFont.copy() # check it if args.careful: if copiedToSlot.startswith("uni"): copiedToSlot = copiedToSlot[3:] codepoint = int("0x" + copiedToSlot, 16) try: sourceFont[codepoint] except TypeError: # nothing there go ahead and paste at this codepoint sourceFont.selection.select(currentSourceFontGlyph) sourceFont.paste() else: sourceFont.selection.select(currentSourceFontGlyph) sourceFont.paste() sourceFont[currentSourceFontGlyph].glyphname = glyphName # Now that we have copy/pasted the glyph, if we are creating a monospace # font we need to scale and move the glyphs. It is possible to have # empty glyphs, so we need to skip those. if args.single and sym_dim['width'] and sym_dim['height']: scale_ratio_x = 1 scale_ratio_y = 1 # If we want to preserve that aspect ratio of the glyphs we need to # find the largest possible scaling factor that will allow the glyph # to fit in both the x and y directions if sym_attr['stretch'] == 'pa': if scale_factor: # We want to preserve the relative size of each glyph to other glyphs # in the same symbol font. scale_ratio_x = scale_factor scale_ratio_y = scale_factor else: # In this case, each glyph is sized independantly to each other scale_ratio_x = get_scale_factor(font_dim, sym_dim) scale_ratio_y = scale_ratio_x else: if 'x' in sym_attr['stretch']: # Stretch the glyph horizontally to fit the entire available width scale_ratio_x = font_dim['width'] / sym_dim['width'] if 'y' in sym_attr['stretch']: # Stretch the glyph vertically to total line height (good for powerline separators) scale_ratio_y = font_dim['height'] / sym_dim['height'] if scale_ratio_x != 1 or scale_ratio_y != 1: sourceFont.transform(psMat.scale(scale_ratio_x, scale_ratio_y)) # Use the dimensions from the newly pasted and stretched glyph sym_dim = get_dim(sourceFont[currentSourceFontGlyph]) # Center the symbol vertically by matching the center of the line height and center of symbol sym_ycenter = sym_dim['ymax'] - (sym_dim['height'] / 2) font_ycenter = font_dim['ymax'] - (font_dim['height'] / 2) y_align_distance = font_ycenter - sym_ycenter # Handle glyph l/r/c alignment # First find the baseline x-alignment (left alignment amount) x_align_distance = font_dim['xmin']-sym_dim['xmin'] if sym_attr['align'] == 'c': # Center align x_align_distance += (font_dim['width']/2) - (sym_dim['width']/2) elif sym_attr['align'] == 'r': # Right align x_align_distance += font_dim['width'] - sym_dim['width'] if sym_attr['overlap'] is True: # We will use 1% of the font height/width as the overlap amount overlap_width = font_dim['width'] / 100; overlap_height = font_dim['height'] / 100; sourceFont.transform(psMat.scale((sym_dim['width'] + overlap_width) / sym_dim['width'], (sym_dim['height'] + overlap_height) / sym_dim['height'] )) # We are always vertically centering the glyph, so adjust it after the scale operation y_align_distance -= overlap_height if sym_attr['align'] == 'l': # The glyph should be left-aligned, so it must be moved overlap_width to the left # This only applies to left-aligned glyphs because the glyph is scaled to the right x_align_distance -= overlap_width align_matrix = psMat.translate(x_align_distance, y_align_distance) sourceFont.transform(align_matrix) if args.single: # Ensure the font is considered monospaced on Windows by setting the same # width for all character glyphs. # This needs to be done for all glyphs, even the ones that are empty and # didn't go through the scaling operations. sourceFont[currentSourceFontGlyph].width = font_dim['width'] if exactEncoding is False: sourceFontCounter += 1 # reset selection so iteration works propertly @todo fix? rookie misunderstanding? # This is likely needed because the selection was changed when the glyph was copy/pasted symbolFont.selection.select(("ranges","unicode"),symbolFontStart,symbolFontEnd) # end for return if args.extension == "": extension = os.path.splitext(sourceFont.path)[1] else: extension = '.'+args.extension if args.single and extension == '.ttf': # Force width to be equal on all glyphs to ensure the font is considered monospaced on Windows. # This needs to be done on all characters, as some information seems to be lost from the original font file. # This is only a problem with ttf files, otf files seem to be okay. set_width(sourceFont, font_dim['width']) # Prevent opening and closing the fontforge font. Makes things faster when patching # multiple ranges using the same symbol font. PreviousSymbolFilename = "" symfont = None for patch in PATCH_SET: if patch['Enabled']: if PreviousSymbolFilename != patch['Filename']: # We have a new symbol font, so close the previous one if it exists if symfont: symfont.close() symfont = None symfont = fontforge.open("glyph-source-fonts/"+patch['Filename']) # Match the symbol font size to the source font size symfont.em = sourceFont.em PreviousSymbolFilename = patch['Filename'] copy_glyphs(sourceFont, patch['SrcStart'], patch['SrcEnd'], symfont, patch['SymStart'], patch['SymEnd'], patch['Exact'], patch['ScaleGlyph']) if symfont: symfont.close() # the `PfEd-comments` flag is required for Fontforge to save # '.comment' and '.fontlog'. sourceFont.generate(args.outputdir + "/" + sourceFont.fullname + extension, flags=('opentype', 'PfEd-comments')) print "Generated" print sourceFont.fullname