svgicons2svgfont/README.md

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# svgicons2svgfont
> Read a set of SVG icons and ouput a SVG font

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svgicons2svgfont is a simple tool to merge
 multiple icons to an SVG font.

'rect', 'line', 'circle', 'ellipsis', 'polyline' and 'polygon' shapes will be
 converted to pathes. Multiple pathes will be merged.

Transform attributes support is currenly experimental,
 [report issues if any](https://github.com/nfroidure/svgicons2svgfont/issues/6).

You can test this library with the
 [frontend generator](http://nfroidure.github.io/svgiconfont/).

You may want to convert fonts to icons, if so use
 [svgfont2svgicons](https://github.com/nfroidure/svgfont2svgicons).

## Usage

### In your scripts
```js
var svgicons2svgfont = require('svgicons2svgfont');
var fs = require('fs');
var fontStream = svgicons2svgfont({
  fontName: 'hello'
});

// Setting the font destination
fontStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('fonts/hello.svg'))
  .on('finish',function() {
    console.log('Font successfully created!')
  })
  .on('error',function(err) {
    console.log(err);
  });

// Writing glyphs
var glyph1 = fs.createReadStream('icons/icon1.svg');
glyph1.metadata = {
  unicode: ['\uE001\uE002'],
  name: 'icon1'
};
fontStream.write(glyph1);
// Multiple unicode values are possible
var glyph2 = fs.createReadStream('icons/icon1.svg');
glyph2.metadata = {
  unicode: ['\uE002', '\uEA02'],
  name: 'icon2'
};
fontStream.write(glyph2);
// Either ligatures are available
var glyph3 = fs.createReadStream('icons/icon1.svg');
glyph3.metadata = {
  unicode: ['\uE001\uE002'],
  name: 'icon1-icon2'
};
fontStream.write(glyph3);

// Do not forget to end the stream
fontStream.end();
```

## CLI interface
All options are available except the `log` one by using this pattern:
 `--{LOWER_CASE(optionName)}={optionValue}`.
```sh
svgicons2svgfont --fontname=hello -o font/destination/file.svg icons/directory/*.svg
```
Note that you won't be able to customize icon names or icons unicodes by
 passing options but by using the following convention to name your icons files:
 `${icon.unicode}-${icon.name}.svg` where `icon.unicode` is a comma separated
 list of unicode strings (ex: 'uEA01,uE001,uE001uE002', note that the last
 string is in fact a ligature).

There is a few more options for the CLI interface, you can list all of them:
```js
svgicons2svgfont --help
#  Usage: svgicons2svgfont [options] <icons ...>
#
#  Options:
#
#    -h, --help                  output usage information
#    -V, --version               output the version number
#    -v, --verbose               tell me everything!
#    -o, --output [/dev/stdout]  Output file.
#    -f, --fontname [value]      the font family name you want [iconfont].
#    -i, --fontId [value]        The font id you want [fontname]
#    -st, --style [value]        the font style you want [iconfont].
#    -we, --weight [value]       the font weight you want [iconfont].
#    -w, --fixedWidth            creates a monospace font of the width of the largest input icon.
#    -c, --centerhorizontally    calculate the bounds of a glyph and center it horizontally.
#    -n, --normalize             normalize icons by scaling them to the height of the highest icon.
#    -h, --height [value]        the outputted font height [MAX(icons.height)].
#    -r, --round [value]         setup the SVG path rounding [10e12].
#    -d, --descent [value]       the font descent [0].
#    -a, --ascent [value]        the font ascent [height - descent].
#    -s, --startunicode [value]  the start unicode codepoint for unprefixed files [0xEA01].
#    -a, --prependUnicode         prefix files with their automatically allocated unicode codepoint.
#    -m, --metadata              content of the metadata tag.
```

## API

### svgicons2svgfont(options)

#### options.fontName
Type: `String`
Default value: `'iconfont'`

The font family name you want.

#### options.fontId
Type: `String`
Default value: the options.fontName value

The font id you want.

#### options.fontStyle
Type: `String`
Default value: `''`

The font style you want.

#### options.fontWeight
Type: `String`
Default value: `''`

The font weight you want.

#### options.fixedWidth
Type: `Boolean`
Default value: `false`

Creates a monospace font of the width of the largest input icon.

#### options.centerHorizontally
Type: `Boolean`
Default value: `false`

Calculate the bounds of a glyph and center it horizontally.

**Warning:** The bounds calculation is currently a naive implementation that
 may not work for some icons. We need to create a svg-pathdata-draw module on
 top of svg-pathdata to get the real bounds of the icon. It's on the bottom
 of my to do, but feel free to work on it. Discuss it in the
 [related issue](https://github.com/nfroidure/svgicons2svgfont/issues/18).

#### options.normalize
Type: `Boolean`
Default value: `false`

Normalize icons by scaling them to the height of the highest icon.

#### options.fontHeight
Type: `Number`
Default value: `MAX(icons.height)`
The outputted font height  (defaults to the height of the highest input icon).

#### options.round
Type: `Number`
Default value: `10e12`
Setup SVG path rounding.

#### options.descent
Type: `Number`
Default value: `0`

The font descent. It is usefull to fix the font baseline yourself.

**Warning:**  The descent is a positive value!

#### options.ascent
Type: `Number`
Default value: `fontHeight - descent`

The font ascent. Use this options only if you know what you're doing. A suitable
 value for this is computed for you.

#### options.metadata
Type: `String`
Default value: `undefined`

The font [metadata](http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/metadata.html). You can set any
 character data in but it is the be suited place for a copyright mention.

#### options.log
Type: `Function`
Default value: `console.log`

Allows you to provide your own logging function. Set to `function(){}` to
 impeach logging.

## Build systems

### Grunt plugins

[grunt-svgicons2svgfont](https://github.com/nfroidure/grunt-svgicons2svgfont)
 and [grunt-webfont](https://github.com/sapegin/grunt-webfont).

### Gulp plugins

Try [gulp-iconfont](https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-iconfont) and
  [gulp-svgicons2svgfont](https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-svgicons2svgfont).

### Stylus plugin

Use [stylus-iconfont](https://www.npmjs.org/package/stylus-iconfont).

### Mimosa plugin

Use [mimosa-svgs-to-iconfonts](https://www.npmjs.org/package/mimosa-svgs-to-iconfonts).

## CLI alternatives

You can combine this plugin's CLI interface with
 [svg2ttf](https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg2ttf),
 [ttf2eot](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ttf2eot),
 [ttf2woff](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ttf2woff)
 and [ttf2woff2](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ttf2woff2).
You can also use [webfonts-generator](https://www.npmjs.com/package/webfonts-generator).

## Stats

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## Contributing
Feel free to push your code if you agree with publishing under the MIT license.

# License
[MIT](https://github.com/nfroidure/svgicons2svgfont/blob/master/LICENSE)