Icon Font Generator

This project is simply a collection of scripts to generate icon font files. It consists of two main components:

• generate-icons.rb - this splits an EPS file containing a regular grid of icons into individual EPS files; one per icon
• generate-font-file.py - this takes a directory of EPS icon files and generates a font with them

Installation

Install Homebrew. Then:

brew install ghostscript
brew install fontforge

Most likely, the Fontforge installation will fail (OS X 10.7 with the Command-Line Tools). If it doesn't, then do a brew uninstall fontforge before continuing. We need to update the Homebrew formula for Fontforge and (re)install.

Edit /usr/local/Library/Formula/fontforge.rb and paste the contents of this gist into it. This will fix the compilation error and also install the Python module for Fontforge, which we'll need later.

To make a non-Homebrew Python aware of the Fontforge Python module, add the following to your ~/.bash_profile:

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

Run a source ~/.bash_profile to reload it.

Running generate-icons.rb

generate-icons.rb is self-documenting: