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# Fontify
**Make your own typeface from your handwriting!**
- Download a PDF template to print and fill with a not too fin black pen,
- Scan it with DPI >= 300,
- Upload your beautiful handwriting to the webapp,
- It creates a TrueType font, and let you preview it,
- If you are happy, save it and start to use it!
- See [this demo](https://github.com/Naereen/My-Own-HandWritting-Font) showing how a font generated with Fontify can look, on a website, a LaTeX document or slideshows, or slides made [with Marp](https://yhatt.github.io/marp/).
## Warning
:boom: **I will not try to run the app somewhere online.**
:raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: If you want to use Fontify, you need a laptop under Debian or Ubuntu (or maybe Mac OS X or a virtual machine under Microsoft Windows), with Python installed, and use the instructions explained below.
## Demo
> Here are a few screenshots of the webapp:
|1. Print the template|2. Upload the scanned template|
|--|--|
| <img width="100%" src="screenshots/demo1.png"> | <img width="100%" src="screenshots/demo2.png"> |
| It generates the font and you can preview it |
|--|
| <img width="90%" src="screenshots/demo3.png"> |
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## Development (*only* on Debian/Ubuntu)
> - It *only* works on [Python](https://www.python.org/) 2, so far (but I'm almost sure it would also work for [Python](https://www.python.org/) 3).
> - I will try to set up a [Docker image](https://www.docker.com/) to ease this experiment... maybe.
1. First clone and `cd` into the repository, fetch the [third-party dependencies](scripts/third-party).
```shell
cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/Naereen/fontify
cd fontify
git submodule init
git submodule update
```
2. Install all the dependencies.
```shell
sudo apt-get install potrace imagemagick fontforge fontforge-extras wkhtmltopdf python-opencv python-fontforge # try to use 'brew' on Mac OS X ?
npm install -g ttf2woff
sudo pip2 install --upgrade virtualenv
```
3. Activate a [virtualenv](http://virtualenv.pypa.io/) and start the app!
```shell
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
type pip python # check that this is the local ones
pip install -r requirements.txt
python hello.py # or 'make rundebug'
```
4. And open the app to use it!
```shell
firefox http://0.0.0.0:5000/ &
```
5. Note: in "development mode", the app is relaunched whenever a file is modified. Use [`make run`](Makefile) to run "in production" mode.
6. To open the app to anyone on Internet, you can use [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/) (:boom: and also, be crazy, as this app has NO GUARANTEE TO BE SECURE):
```shell
ngrok http 5000
```
7. There is also a [XeLaTeX file](static/test.tex) showing how to use a custom font in a LaTeX document, and [here is how it looks](https://perso.crans.org/besson/publis/latex/test_handwritten_font_with_fontify.pdf).
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### :scroll: License ? [](https://github.com/Naereen/fontify/blob/master/LICENSE)
This (small) repository is published under the terms of the [MIT license](http://lbesson.mit-license.org/) (file [LICENSE](LICENSE)).
© [Lilian Besson](https://GitHub.com/Naereen), 2018.
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