__license__ = """ This file is part of Gnu FreeFont. Gnu FreeFont is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Gnu FreeFont is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Gnu FreeFont. If not, see . """ __author__ = "Stevan White" __email__ = "stevan.white@googlemail.com" __copyright__ = "Copyright 2009, 2010, Stevan White" __date__ = "$Date: 2010-09-14 13:02:02 $" __version__ = "$Revision: 1.3 $" __doc__ = """ For use from the FontForge Script Menu. Add it to the Scripts Menu using the Preferences dialog. Sets the name and unicode values of the selected range of slots to the encoding, that is Name: uniXXXX Unocode: u+XXXX where XXXX is the 4-digit hex value for the slot encoding. Careful! it changes the falue whether it was previously set or not. Detailed info is printed to standard output (see by launching FontForge from a console). """ import fontforge def explain_error_and_quit( e ): if e: print 'Error: ', e exit( 1 ) try: glyphs = fontforge.activeFont().selection.byGlyphs for g in glyphs: newname = 'NameMe.%s' %( str( g.encoding ) ) print "naming " + str( g.glyphname ) + ' as ' + newname g.glyphname = newname g.unicode = -1 except ValueError, e: explain_error_and_quit( e )