fontman desktop core

Version: 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT

Fontman desktop core works as the fontman client application's backend. All the tasks like installing fonts, updating font cache are covered by this application. It uses a SQLite database to store data, you can find it under "data" directory in fontman-desktop's home directory.

Requirements

Make sure you have python 3 and pip installed. Then install following packages.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run for the first time

To initialize the application data, if you are running it for the first time,

python3 core-runner.py init

Run fms

python3 core-runner.py run

Once the flask application started you can start using fontman-gui, fontman-client frontend.

Building the FMS binary

We use PyInstaller to build the FMS binary for all platforms. To install PyInstaller simply do,

pip3 install pyinstaller

Now build the FMS binary by,

pyinstaller --onefile core-runner.py

If you don't want to compromize Flask terminal output simply do,

pyinstaller --onefile --noconsole core-runner.py

Once the PyInstaller is done, FMS binary can be found in the dist directory. Named as core-runner on Linux, core-runner.exe on Windows and core-runner.dmg on Mac.