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  Metrics Machine Spreadsheet view in RF4 broken?
  • Kris  

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  oh thanks! that is indeed gone... see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsclipview/1532142-copiesonscroll?language=objc
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  SOLVED Metrics Machine Custom Increment and Decrement
  • eduairet  

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  @frederik Yes, I know, but this time I have to use 100 or 0 because of the design of the typeface so what I need is an increase/decrease of 100
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  SOLVED Glyph Builder: uniXXXX glyph name doesn’t trigger unicode value
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  moved to a github issue on GlyphConstruction: https://github.com/typemytype/GlyphConstruction/issues/56
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  Skateboard space window mismatch
  • GregThompson  

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  I just realized mouse down location in the Skateboard space window is "wrong" and the grey dot indicator at the center of the light dashed crosshairs correctly corresponds to what shows up in the Skateboard Text window. Should tell you how unobservant I can be :) :( 18 ufos in 3 axes in the designspace causes this. 10 ufos in 2 axes does not. My Broadacre font has 10 and Skateboard handles that designspace like a champ. I'm ready to either help isolate the issue or send you these point-compatible ufos and designspace file.
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  SOLVED RoboChrome: Traceback when trying to generate font
  extensions font generation color fonts • • martin  

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  he Martin you need to generate a binary first yourself, see the docs of RoboChrome Generate your font via RoboFont as usual. For the sbix format you need to generate a TTF, it won’t work with OTFs. If you click the Export to font button now, RoboChrome will know where to look for the TTF you just generated, and will save a copy with a _sbix suffix. hope this helps!
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  SOLVED ScaleFast 1.0.3 won’t launch
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  The error is self-explanatory. You are trying to subscript an object which you think is a list or dict, but actually is None. This means that you tried to do: None[something] This error means that you attempted to index an object that doesn't have that functionality. You might have noticed that the method sort() that only modify the list have no return value printed – they return the default None. 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable is the one thrown by python when you use the square bracket notation object[key] where an object doesn't define the getitem method . This is a design principle for all mutable data structures in Python.
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  SOLVED Skateboard chokes on kerning?
  kerning • • GregThompson  

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  good you found it! kerning values has to be set very precise. Did the extension DesignSpaceEditor show this kern error in the report? good luck!
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  UNSOLVED Metrics Machine freezing on Groups update
  • ArrowType  

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  ehum, if the data is incorrect its hard to find a solution for this issue. MM is build as such this doesn't happen :) I dont know what should happen in this case: MM should not create empty kern groups MM should not return empty list for not existing groups as fallback MM should not remove that pair with the missing group. Maybe MM should report, so it gets fixed first. (but there are many edge cases to report...) (Maybe this is a case for ufonormalizer?)
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  SOLVED Slanter double and triple slanting components
  components italics • • JustJoeDesign  

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  hello @JustJoeDesign, thanks for the note. it’s fixed in the roboDocs fork, update coming soon to Mechanic…
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  UNSOLVED Hitting “Save” in Glyph Builder *always* behaves like “Save As…”
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  continue here https://github.com/typemytype/GlyphConstruction/issues/52
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  SOLVED Glyph Builder Auto Unicodes issue with uniXXXX names
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  fixed inside RoboFont: will be implemented in the next release!!!
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  SOLVED Feature Preview Error: required argument is not an integer
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  Wait, I did run your script to make sure but looking at fontinfo.plist I find that the value is unchanged and still not an integer: <real>1000.0</real> Changing it manually to <integer>1000</integer> does the trick!
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  UNSOLVED Command Palette
  scripting shortcut • • tallpauley  

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  @tallpauley Thanks for the update to run the command! This gives me something to play around with. To take it a step further, is there a lib API I can use to also pull in space center and glyph view shortcuts, like whatever they use to populate their "Hot Keys" tabs? (Btw, I won't filter out commands that don't have shortcut keys, this is part of the allure of having a command palette, you can access commands that don't have shortcuts keys defined yet). I saw mojo.UI.setGlyphViewDisplaySettings, but this isn't all the available commands for glyph view. For space center I didn't see any API in mojo.UI I would dig around myself, but I think you guys compile to .pyc and I don't want to violate the EULA by reverse engineering (hence me actually clicking on the EULA lol). Once I have all the commands available, I think I should have what I need.
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  SOLVED Order of features in FeaturePreview
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  already fixed, get an update with Mechanic!!
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  SOLVED Prepolator and MetricsMachine are not listed in Mechanic 2.0
  metrics machine prepolator • • paulvanderlaan  

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  hello @paulvanderlaan, it turns out the problem is not related to Mechanic2 at all, but to old macOS 10.10 which gets confused when multiple certificates are attached to a domain – this causes Safari and macOS to think that the certificate is invalid (it works in Firefox and Chrome though). the good news is that you can use an older version of Mechanic (zip link) which is a bit slower but can display extensions from the Extension Store on macOS 10.10. thanks @frederik for looking into it!
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  UNSOLVED Prepolator: various tracebacks
  prepolator • • paulvanderlaan  

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  Okay, that's all for now. Apologies for the long posts! ;)
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  UNSOLVED Prepolator: shortcuts for previous/next glyph don't work
  keyboard shortcuts prepolator • • paulvanderlaan  

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  Thank you. That's great to hear Frederik. Please wait a little with pushing an update. I encountered a bunch of small errors that you might want to have a look at too. Will post them shortly.
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  SOLVED How to copy anchors from one font to another
  scripting anchors • • horashann  

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  hello @horashann, yes, this can be done with a simple script: # get source and destination fonts srcFont = AllFonts().getFontsByFamilyName('MyFontFamily').getFontsByStyleName('Regular')[0] dstFont = AllFonts().getFontsByFamilyName('MyFontFamily').getFontsByStyleName('Italic')[0] # iterate over selected glyphs in the source font for glyphName in srcFont.selectedGlyphNames: # get the source glyph srcGlyph = srcFont[glyphName] # if the glyph doesn't have any anchors, skip it if not len(srcGlyph.anchors): continue # get the destination glyph dstGlyph = dstFont[glyphName] # iterate over all anchors in the source glyph for anchor in srcGlyph.anchors: # copy anchor to destination glyph dstGlyph.appendAnchor(anchor.name, (anchor.x, anchor.y)) # done! make sure to replace MyFontFamily and Regular / Italic with the family name and style names of your fonts. cheers!
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  UNSOLVED MetricsMachine V 4.0.7 VS V 1.1.0
  metrics machine • • MNT  

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  @jansindl3r That is possible... there were some bug fixed related to trial and student versions of extensions. Will send @erik new student licenses for MM and PP. @erik will need to compile a fresh version of Skateboard for students ( @tal )
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  UNSOLVED How to share living instance?
  scripting modules • • jansindl3r  

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  Dont get it why Gustavo's answer does not work... You initiate only once an instance from that class and import it back into other modules. A fourth easy solution is to add a variable to NSApp() import AppKit app = AppKit.NSApp() app._my_extenstion_name_controller = "foo" this will be accessible everywhere, but this is actually the same as Gustavo's answers, just stored somewhere else :)