JSON extraction for macro view

Scripting
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Hi all

Earlier on i used a script for extracting JSON data into the macro view. I need something along these lines; [{“name”: “A”, “unicode”: “0041”}, and on and on we go. Normally I’m very savvy at finding these things again, but it’s completely gone.

Hope someone can help me

2

you can use

glyph.propertyListValueFormat_(3)

is that useful?

3

Honestly i’m not a script builder at all, so I don’t know how to use this. All i know is someone made a script like this a few years ago and had it posted on their github but now it’s gone.

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What are you trying to do with this?

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It’s for my foundry site, where the JSON dictates which glyphs are for show on the website glyph-overview. The script would previously just send out all the selected glyphs comma seperated like the example on top.

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Where did you get the script from?

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Most likely github. I’ve scoured through everything on the Glyphs forum but nothing so far.

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But if you only need the name and the Unicode, it is fairly straightforward to write yourself. A perfect opportunity to learn some python :wink:

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Haha i wish i had the patience — sometimes i wonder why i find it easier to create hangul than learning a script.

I found the script by the text image search on the spotlight. Here’s what i have, but glyphs app is complaining;

import array, json
glyphs = [ ]
for (i,g) in enumerate(Glyphs.font.glyphs):
	glyphs. append({
	'name': g. name,
	'category': g. category,
	'subCategory': g.subCategory,
	'unicode': g.unicode
})
print json.dumps (glyphs)
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I just solved it! Thanks anyhow Georg

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would you share that? trying to do the same on our foundry’s shopify and i need a workaround that uses a json string to display charset

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Of course. Just send me an email. mads @ bold-decisions.biz