Grunt task

[lordfpx]

Hello,

Would it be difficult to do a grunt task?

[Rush]

Probably easy, I accept pull requests :)

[lordfpx]

If I knew how to do that, that would be a pleasure to send a PR ;-)

[Rush]

What exactly do you want to do with grunt?

[lordfpx]

We need to automate project building using NPM, Bower and Grunt. We are using Font awesome, unfortunately, icons can't be displayed when printing on old Opera versions, Sogou (Chinese browser) and badly on IE8. The only solution is to provide for a PNG fallback.

Grunt copy, compile Less, concat JS, copy files... Now we need to generate PNG for font awesome icons.
As it's a huge project with changing developers, things has to be automated.

[Rush]

You can generate them once and commit to your repo as PNGs. Also, the repo provides pre-generated version of black and white pngs.

[lordfpx]

Yes that what we will do I think. Thank you!

[shobhitg]

Also Font Awesome maintainers aren't very keen on adding very many fonts going forward.

People +1 requests on Font Awesome everyday, but to no avail (FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#492).

Infact, they have clearly stated that they are not accepting any pull requests: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests

And rightly so, If FA would keep adding fonts left and right then it would become humongous very soon. And that is where Font Custom comes in (https://github.com/FontCustom/fontcustom).

[dominykas]

There already are two packages that work as grunt tasks:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-font-awesome-svg
https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-font-awesome-svg-png

No clue why aren't they using this lib as a dependency.