Help me to port Figma Font Server to FreeBSD

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free_monkey123

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Hello, I'm not a developer, but working as designer in software development. As many other designers nowadays, we're using Figma as a main tool. Figma can be open in FreeBSD in a web browser, no issue at all. But the most important part is missing: It can't read local fonts from the browser just like that, it requires a Figma font server.

There is a couple of them:
- Official from Figma (called Font installer), but it's for Mac or Windows

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And some third party implementations, but for Linux. Some uses Docker, or other services, that I'm not familiar with:
- figma-linux-font-helper 1
- figma-linux-font-helper 2
- figma-linux-font-helper 3

I'm looking for a developer who can help on that.
Your support could make a significant difference, and together, we can create a more inclusive environment for designers everywhere. Let's make it happen!
 
free_monkey123 said:
There is a couple of them:
- Official from Figma (called Font installer), but it's for Mac or Windows
Click to expand...
It's closed source, so there's nothing to port here.

free_monkey123 said:
And some third party implementations, but for Linux. Some uses Docker, or other services, that I'm not familiar with:
- figma-linux-font-helper 1
Click to expand...
This is probably the easiest one, it's two Python scripts that use www/py-flask and www/py-flask-cors.

Code: 
dice@fbsd-test:~/temp % git clone https://github.com/tryvin/figma-linux-font-helper.git
Cloning into 'figma-linux-font-helper'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 80, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (22/22), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done.
remote: Total 80 (delta 6), reused 8 (delta 1), pack-reused 58 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (80/80), 19.32 KiB | 2.42 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (35/35), done.
dice@fbsd-test:~/temp % cd figma-linux-font-helper/
dice@fbsd-test:~/temp/figma-linux-font-helper % ll
total 42
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice   28 Oct 30 11:45 .dockerignore
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice   90 Oct 30 11:45 .env.example
drwxr-xr-x  8 dice dice   13 Oct 30 11:45 .git/
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice 1203 Oct 30 11:45 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice  209 Oct 30 11:45 Dockerfile
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice 1060 Oct 30 11:45 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice 1346 Oct 30 11:45 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x  1 dice dice  493 Oct 30 11:45 docker-compose.yml*
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice 2051 Oct 30 11:45 helpers.py
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice   23 Oct 30 11:45 requirements.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 dice dice 2380 Oct 30 11:45 server.py
dice@fbsd-test:~/temp/figma-linux-font-helper % sudo pkg install www/py-flask www/py-flask-cors
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        py311-Babel: 2.16.0
        py311-Flask-Cors: 3.0.8_1
        py311-Jinja2: 3.1.4
        py311-blinker: 1.8.2
        py311-click: 8.1.7
        py311-flask: 3.0.3
        py311-itsdangerous: 2.2.0
        py311-markupsafe: 2.1.5_1
        py311-werkzeug: 3.0.4

Number of packages to be installed: 9

The process will require 36 MiB more space.
8 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/9] Fetching py311-markupsafe-2.1.5_1.pkg: 100%   20 KiB  20.0kB/s    00:01
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Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
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dice@fbsd-test:~/temp/figma-linux-font-helper % python3.11 server.py 0.0.0.0
 * Serving Flask app 'server'
 * Debug mode: off
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Running on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:18412
 * Running on http://192.168.10.20:18412
Press CTRL+C to quit
 
SirDice thank you for the help! I just tried in FreeBSD 14.2 and that server sees local fonts well.

But I wasn't able to select it in Figma itself. Maybe because Firefox has some limitations to reading local fonts? I don't know yet. Trying to use LLM to fix that, but yet no luck.
 
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