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

[Roozbeh Pournader]

Look at how nototools does it here:
https://code.google.com/p/noto/source/browse/nototools/font_data.py#22

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Rolf Langenhuijzen <
rolf.langenhuijzen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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