Tips for running scripts on OSX

Question

krisbulman opened this issue 13 years ago · 4 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

Answer 1 · 2012-03-14T16:51:06.000Z

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

Answer 2 · 2012-03-14T17:24:30.000Z

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

Answer 3 · 2012-03-19T06:28:14.000Z

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

fontforge -script iconic_stroke.py

Answer 4 · 2012-03-19T18:12:51.000Z

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.