fonttools | A library to manipulate font files from Python

Create a list of all the dependencies and run the following code.

FontForge is not a python module but separate software. Hence, instead of calling FontForge from a python script, one can call python from a fontforge executable. Since I wanted to create the font in .ttf format from a python script, I wrote an additional python script named execute.py which executes a cmd command that executes fontforge that executes the python svgs2ttf script.

The execute.py contains:

Glyphs' heights are not specified anywhere (at least, not for a horizontal layout). Probably, what you're looking for is sxHeight from the 'OS/2' table (the distance between the baseline and the approximate height of non-ascending lowercase letters). There's also sxCapHeight field (for uppercase letters). Though, those fields were defined in the second version of the OS/2 table.

To find out the glyph's height, you can simply subtract its lowest point from the highest one (i.e. glyph height = yMax - yMin). yMax and yMin are stored in Glyph Header in the 'glyf' table (for TrueType outlines).

If you need glyphs' widths, 'hmtx' table contains an advance width for every glyph in a font, as well as left-side and right-side bearings. 'hhea' table contains a maximum advance width value (advanceWidthMax).

I figured it out one can use fontTools.ttLib.woff2.decompress() to acheive this

MingGW's console is converting the string to the console encoding (cp1252 from the error message`) and that encoding doesn't support the full range of Unicode characters.

The standard Windows console does not get the error. Below is a cut-and-paste from the cmd.exe Windows console.

-i URL, or --index-url URL means "use URL for installing packages from exclusively". By passing -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/, you thus prohibit searching and downloading packages from PyPI (https://pypi.org/simple). To use both indexes, use --extra-index-url:

With fonttools installed in your Python (virtualenv, pipenv, etc):

You need to uninstall fontTools and then install the py27 branch of it. The version you are using isn't backwards compatible to Python 2.7

The version is stored in the font file header, not in a font data table. If you have a ttLib.TTFont object (i.e. you've opened a font file with fontTools), you can look at the .sfntVersion attribute of your TTFont object to get the version (which will usually be either 0x00010000/Version 1 or 0x4F54544F/OTTO, but there are other possible values, see below). But that kind of assumes you've already created a TTFont object by opening a font file, so this might be a kind of chicken-and-egg issue. If you're interested in knowing the version before you attempt to open the file/create a TTFont, you'll have to sniff the first four bytes (at least), outside of fontTools.

Note: I'm a little confused by your question. You mention Type 1, which is indeed a kind of PostScript font, but not (usually) the kind in OpenType/sfnt-housed fonts (that would be Type 2, "Compact Font Format", or CFF). There is supposedly a way to store Type 1 in OpenType/sfnt-housed fonts; Apple mentions this in their TrueType Reference manual:

The values 'true' (0x74727565) and 0x00010000 are recognized by OS X and iOS as referring to TrueType fonts. The value 'typ1' (0x74797031) is recognized as referring to the old style of PostScript font housed in a sfnt wrapper. The value 'OTTO' (0x4F54544F) indicates an OpenType font with PostScript outlines (that is, a 'CFF ' table instead of a 'glyf' table). Other values are not currently supported.

So if typ1 is in fact what you're asking about, you could look for 0x74797031/"typ1" in the first four bytes of the file. But actual typ1 sfnt-housed fonts are exceedingly rare -- like almost non-existent. The overwhelming majority of actual Type 1 fonts will be in either .PFA/.PFB files (for non-Mac platforms), or in a "Printer Font" file (pre-OS X Mac), which would be paired with the old resource-fork "suitcase" file containing bitmaps. Type 1 font files will have %!PS-AdobeFont-1 as the first bytes of the file.