[HarfBuzz] Need to read family name (nameID/fontTools/TTX related)

[Rolf Langenhuijzen]

Hello,

Sorry to hijack the Harfbuzz list for this, I think this is more fontTools/TTX related, but I didn’t see an (active?) TTX list to post this to…

Basically I’d like to read the name table in a Python script. I thought this could be done rather easy with fontTools/TTX, but no idea really. Any pointers??

I came across this https://github.com/tchollingsworth/ttname which is basically what I need, however I don’t need write stuff and basically only need to read the name table. I started forking it, but then noticed it depends on some older fontTools version, looking at how it wants to use the XML reader (import fontTools.ttLib.xmlImport).
So if this is a good start I would dive into that XML reading/parsing and perhaps update ttname if it’s worth it..

As I was looking for the Family Name in particular I’m now running a subprocess.Popen to “otfinfo --family" grabbing that information ;)
It’s a bit dirty, but for prototyping it works..

Kind regards,
Rolf