If you’re working with RoboFab/NoneLab you’ll need a UFO file if you want your code to do anything constructive. The “United Font Object” is a working format developed by the RoboFab folks that is not a single file at all, but a directory structure that stores glyphs and font information as XML and plist […]

Plist files are an attack on civility. Let’s use Python to convert them to a JSON formatted file for easier data handling. We’ll explore using the Plistlib.py and SimpleJson libraries, badmouth XML a little, show some code, and have a rollicking good time.
For the occasion I’ve created plist2json.py, a command line script that converts a […]