On Sep 10, 2013 10:50 AM, "Dave Crossland" <dave@lab6.com> wrote:
>
> Yikes :) You could use fontforge python module or fontTools (all
> native Python that way, runs on pypy if you use Behdad's version
> (github.com/behdad/fonttools))
>
> http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tools/chars/showchars.py
> is a simple fontforge python script
> http://fontforge.org/python.html is the official python API, a nicer
> version is at http://dmtr.org/ff.php is a nicer
>
> A fontTools example is here;
> https://github.com/xen/fontbakery/blob/master/scripts/genmetadata.py

:)

Yeah, i think i should use these rather than fc-scan. I even found wonderful python freetype binding at http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/ 

Thanks,

Pravin Satpute