font-patcher showing me oserror

[human9182]

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🎯 Subject of the issue

Experienced behavior:
When I run fontforge -script font-patcher --fontawesome --glyphdir ./src/glyphs Inconsolata-Regular.ttf I got this

Copyright (c) 2000-2022. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Version: 20220308
 Based on sources from 2022-03-11 17:46 UTC-ML-D-GDK3.
Core python package 'pkg_resources' not found: Cannot discover plugins
The following table(s) in the font have been ignored by FontForge
  Ignoring 'STAT' style attributes table
Use-my-metrics flag set on at least two components in glyph 631
No configfile given, skipping configfile related actions
Nerd Fonts Patcher v2.1.0 executing

The requested file, original-source.otf, does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/font-forge/font-patcher", line 1037, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/user/font-forge/font-patcher", line 1032, in main
    patcher.patch()
  File "/home/user/font-forge/font-patcher", line 110, in patch
    symfont = fontforge.open(self.args.glyphdir + patch['Filename'])
OSError: Open failed

I didn't download the entire git since it's too big. What I did is run mkdir -p src/glyphs/font-awesome and downloaded the otfs from fontawesome website and put three of them(when you download and extract zip you get three otfs) in src/glyphs/font-awesome directory. The src directory is relative to font-patcher(both are in the same directory).

Expected behavior:
This shouldn't give not found error cause everything is fine to me.

🔧 Setup

Font: Inconsolata-Regular.ttf
Source: Google Fonts
OS: arch linux

[Finii]

Will be fixed by #741

Usually you should not download 'just' the font-patcher script. Of course you also should not download the whole repo. But there is a FontPatcher.zip on the Release page, that include the script and all symbol fonts.

But you are right, that bit of information is missing from the instructions: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-own-font 😭

I already tried to assemble all information here: #847, but did not yet came round to pour the into the actual README.me file. Sorry.

Is your problem / would your problem be solved by the information given in the discussion if it is in the main documentation?

[waydegilliam]

@human9182 I was dealing w/ a similar issue patching my own fonts, and I wrote an article here detailing how to patch a custom font. Hope this helps!

[Finii]

@waydegg

wrote an article here detailing how to patch a custom font. Hope this helps!

Nice.

Hopefully all the laborous steps will be unneeded when these PRs are pulled

• Feature: Process TTC files #783
• font-patcher: Check if glyph source is available (--glyphdownload) #741

BTW, suggest using https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/FontPatcher.zip as that has all the needed sub-files already.

[Finii]

Now (at least) a message is displayed:

Nerd Fonts: Can not find symbol glyph directory /home/fini/git/src/glyphs/ (probably you need to download the src/glyphs/ directory?)

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