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Pysilfont. Tools for building and managing fonts in a standard format.

github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont

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Updates

May 2026
  • psfcheckclassesxml - make sure doGraphite is initialized
  • Show HarfBuzz versions
April 2026
  • Major upgrade to psfcheckclassesxml
  • Update year part of UniqueID strings to 2026
  • Rename `psfcheckclassorders` to `psfcheckclassesxml`
  • git ignore .vscode folder
  • Pin odfpy due to a bug
November 2025
  • Adjusted the target versions of python for the testing/linting GitHub…
  • Removed another superceded check from the fontbakery profile as it's …
  • Adjusted the fontbakery profile to remove checks superceded by equiva…
  • Adjusted profile by excluding contour_count and its override as the F…
July 2025
  • Added build parameter to force build isolation to handle deprecation …
June 2025
  • Fixes #103 where attempting to remove `com.schriftgestaltung.Glyphs.s…
  • Bump version number
  • Merge branch 'buildfea_fix'
  • Replace deprecated pkg_resources with recommended importlib.resources
  • Use pysilfont logging, tighten exception handling (issue #102)
May 2025
  • Support fonttools before v4.58.1 (issue #102)
  • Finish the alternate fix (issue #102)
  • Alternate simpler fix for fonttools v4.58.1 (issue #102)
November 2023
  • Release —Packaging updates
September 2023
  • Release —2023-09-27 Maintenance Release - general updates
July 2022
  • Release —Maintenance Release - general updates
May 2020
  • Release —Maintenance Release; Python 2 support removed
July 2019
  • Release —Maintenance Release
March 2019
  • Release —Maintenance Release
October 2018
  • Release —Python 2+3 support
September 2018
  • Release —Stable release prior to Python 2+3 merge
April 2018
  • Release —First versioned release