Is there a program for editing the .glyphspackage files on Windows?

[Derpitron]

I do not have access to a Mac, nor can I set up a Hackintosh, due to my current hardware. I'm limited to the tools in Windows only, which seem to be FontLab and FontForge.

Neither of these programs support the .glyphspackage format, so I'm unable to edit the source files, and I'd rather not have to convert to designspace/UFO every time I want to make changes to the font.

Using https://github.com/florianpircher/glyphspack, may help, but I don't know how to go about integrating this into the Inter toolchain.

Perhaps this could be done using Git Hooks, but I don't know of a way to run a program/script when a file is changed locally at all (without committing or pushing).

[rsms]

You can use fontmake https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake to generate UFO file trees which can be imported into most font editors.

[rsms]

https://github.com/jenskutilek/glyphspkg can convert glyphspackage to glyphs files. The current version of fontmake doesn’t support glyphspackage files (but very soon it will.)

[Derpitron]

Wrangling the Inter Toolchain on Windows and even WSL seems to be more work than is worth it. The Makefile seems to be missing many targets, and seemingly random errors pop up like whack-a-mole everytime I run the same command. I'm at a dead end on what to do.

[rsms]

Should work on Ubuntu 20 in WSL. The fonts are built automatically on every push to github on Ubuntu. Here's the build process: https://github.com/rsms/inter/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-fonts.yml

Really, you just need to apt install python (version 3), bash and make then run make -j all to build everything (this will generate UFOs for every style.) To only generate UFOs for the key "master" designs, you just have to run make -j var. Find the UFOs in build/ufo afterwards.

[Derpitron]

The Makefile is missing the venv target.

[feophan]

Have you resolved the issue? I was not able to build on Windows with venv-related errors.

[Derpitron]

I have resorted to syncing the font workspace between my Windows and Ubuntu installations; working on the font in Fontlab 8 on Windows, and running the toolchain on Ubuntu. It works for me

[rsms]

Is this not it? What is missing exactly?

inter/Makefile

Line 560 in 1070e87

venv: build/venv/config.stamp