Running Puppeteer on WSL2
I have recently had reason to subset fonts manually and I found a tool called glyphhanger which subsets arbitrary fonts to arbitrary codepoints.
As with many of the cool, useful tools on the internet these days, it's something that Zach Leatherman built. Thanks Zach!
The thing - though - is that glyphhanger requires Puppeteer.
Installing Puppeteer in a non-graphical environment
I use Windows for all my day-to-day programming outside work, but I use Linux - via WSL2 - to actually make it a usable environment.
Puppeteer doesn't work out of the box in a "headless" Linux environment.
Thankfully, I found someone who had the same problem. They went through a lot more steps, so I thought I'd boil it down to just 2:
- Install chromium with
sudo apt install -y chromium-browser - Install one missing library dependency with
sudo apt install -y libatk-adaptor