how to use?

[abubelinha]

Hi.

I see no instructions, so I am not sure if I have to install this somehow somewhere in order to try it.
Can you give some advice?

I tried the linked website font.wls.ai but it does not work:

Connection timed out Error code 522
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2023-10-15 11:05:19 UTC

Thanks
@abubelinha

[emendir]

This project sounds very exciting, but the biggest problem is exactly the title of this issue: How to use it?

Please could somebody add some installation instructions?

Without them this project is completely unusable, and all the work the team put into it wasted to a large extent.

[emendir]

Through trying out I've managed to make a little bit of progress in getting this project to run:

I've managed to get the webapp running to some extent, but it isn't fully functional.
What I do so far is:

Install prerequisites (Ubuntu):

sudo apt install -y git
sudo apt install -y python3-fontforge python3-wand python3-flask-cors

Download and run YerFont:

# donwload YerFont
git clone https://github.com/willshiao/YerFont.git

# run YerFont
cd YerFont/backend
# python3 app.py
cd ../frontend
python3 -m http.server

Then I run YerFont in the browser with the following URL:
http://localhost:8000/canvas.html

It looks all right and I can draw characters for lower-case letters, but that's about it, I can't generate a font.

Please can one of the developers publish information on how to run this project?

[Aiki-bot51]

Any progress @emendir or @abubelinha ? I would also like to know how to run it @willshiao @carolyn-kong @kimjihwan0208

[abubelinha]

No idea.
I think this is abandoned.

[Aiki-bot51]

I guess the devs already got good jobs, and saw no use to continue the demo nor provide instructions

[emendir]

Any progress @emendir or @abubelinha ? I would also like to know how to run it @willshiao @carolyn-kong @kimjihwan0208

I'm afraid not. Haven't got the time to hack into systems built in frameworks that are unfamiliar to me, cool as this project seems though.

Another of the sadly common cases of devs just putting their code on github, not knowing what open-source really means.