Developer Guide

General

Metaflop is a JavaScript powered web interface, a Sinatra based backend and a unix tool chain that generates the preview and output fonts. The outputs are downloadable as OpenType font or a webfont package including EOT,WOFF, SVG and TTF.

Prerequisites

• ruby >= 1.9.2 (rbenv or rvm recommended)
• bundler $ gem install bundler
• required rubies $ bundle
• texlive
• texlive-metapost
• fontforge
• lcdf-typetools
• sfnt2woff
• ttf2eot
• t1utils
• python
• python libs: fontforge, argparse
• mysql

Getting started

1. Install the prerequisites above
2. Create a mysql database named metaflop_development
3. Copy the file config/db.yml.sample to config/db.yml and update the mysql username and password
4. $ rackup
5. Go to localhost:9292