Linux – View number of glyphs in a given font for Linux

fontslinux

For a given ttf or otf font, how to get meta information? Information such as how many glyphs were used, what tool was used, what version of font we have, its label, etc?
For windows machine, I have seen this tool. But for Ubuntu/Linux, I couldn't find any!

Best Answer

There is a simple solution that you can use. You will need Perl and libfont-ttf-perl package :

#! /usr/bin/perl 
use Font::TTF::Font; 

unless (defined $ARGV[0]) { 
    die <<'EOT'; 
    ttfnumglyphs infontfile ... 
Prints glyph count for each input TTF file 
EOT 
} 

foreach (@ARGV) { 
    $f = Font::TTF::Font->open($_) || die "Unable to open font file $_"; 
    $num = $f->{'maxp'}{'numGlyphs'}; 
    printf "%6d  %s\n", $num, $_; 
    $f->release; 
}

The only thing you need to do is to save this script to a file, call it throught Perl and give it as a parameter the path of the font you want to count the glyphs :

$ perl glyphs_counter.pl /path/to/the/foo_font.ttf

It seems to work for TTF and OTF formats. Hope it helps.

Related Question