Converts fonts using FontForge

font-convertor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

## To allow this script to work, you must install FontForge with its Python
## extention. On Debian / Ubuntu, this can be done with the following command:
##
##     apt install fontforge python-fontforge

## usage: font-convertor.py [-h] input_file output_file
##
## Converts fonts using FontForge
##
## positional arguments:
##   input_file   input font file
##   output_file  output file name. The format is determined using the file's
##                extension.
##
## optional arguments:
##   -h, --help   show this help message and exit

##        DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
##                    Version 2, December 2004
##
## Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
##
## Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
## copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
## as the name is changed.
##
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##   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
##
##  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.


import argparse

import fontforge


def convert(input_file, output_file):
    font = fontforge.open(input_file)
    font.generate(output_file)


def cli():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
            description="Converts fonts using FontForge")

    parser.add_argument("input",
            help="input font file",
            metavar = "input_file",
            type=str)

    parser.add_argument("output",
            help="output file name. The format is determined using the file's extension.",
            metavar = "output_file",
            type=str)

    args = parser.parse_args()

    convert(args.input, args.output)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    cli()