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This app can't run on your PC

Open GitHubKitten opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

When trying to run handwrite, after having installed all the required other things, I get the message:

"This app can't run on your PC"

i.e. as a Blue Windows 10 information window.

Since there is no .exe file, I can't set to run in configuration mode.

Please help.

GitHubKitten avatar Apr 28 '24 17:04 GitHubKitten

@GitHubKitten, handwrite is just a CLI tool and isn't packaged as an application. You can't run it as any other application on windows.

yashlamba avatar May 01 '24 11:05 yashlamba

Thanks. I am trying to run it from cmd prompt now. But it's not working, I can an error. Here is the cmd prompt messages (please note I am not a developer). Can you see what the error is and how to fix it? To clarify, this is the command I used: "handwrite C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\handwrite.jpg C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts"

See the full cmd dialogue below:

c:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts>handwrite C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\handwrite.jpg C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "", line 88, in run_code File "c:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\handwrite.exe_main.py", line 7, in File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\cli.py", line 56, in main converters( File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\cli.py", line 34, in converters run(sheet, output_directory, directory, config, metadata) File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\cli.py", line 14, in run SVGtoTTF().convert(characters_dir, output_directory, config, metadata) File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\svgtottf.py", line 28, in convert subprocess.run( File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 548, in run with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1026, in init self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1538, in _execute_child hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

c:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts>

GitHubKitten avatar May 01 '24 14:05 GitHubKitten

Looks like you don't have fontforge installed correctly, make sure you enable scripting when installing. If I remember correctly, it comes up as an option when installing.

yashlamba avatar May 02 '24 07:05 yashlamba