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gferreira — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:17:20 GMT

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[[qanda:topic_unsolved]] Existing script to scale UPM, plus dimensions, glyphs, components, kerning, etc?

ryan — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 02:46:03 GMT

@ArrowType Feel free to check out my extension Slinky on Mechanic!

Remove overlap all glyphs

frederik — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:31:02 GMT

Hi Josh, this forum is almost abandoned, I would like to invite you to the open discord group for all your RoboFont related questions! --> https://discord.gg/M8RySPYE

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Only PNG images can be added by a script?

Kalisspera — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:33:47 GMT

If you need to work with JPG images, you could consider converting them to PNG format before adding them through the script. And hey, if you ever need to optimize those JPG files for better performance or smaller sizes, check out jpg compress tools. They can help maintain image quality while reducing file sizes effectively.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Severe slowdown when using Inspector

roberto arista — Fri, 12 May 2023 10:14:53 GMT

Conversation moved to RF discord. Marked as solved.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Reference glyphs in Glyph Editor

roberto arista — Fri, 12 May 2023 10:14:14 GMT

Conversation moved to RF discord. Marked as solved.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Font overview window + Outliner extension

kestlerio — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:04:32 GMT

@frederik Thank you! I will take a look.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Kerning offset overflow

ArrowType — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 03:33:46 GMT

Thanks Arnaud! To add to this, I had some difficulty finding where in MM to actually do this, so... I found the option under "Batch Export" in the MM menu. I simply exported it into the font (features), and now makeOTF works to generate fonts directly!

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Short Keys for Tools not working?

kfdesign — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:35:31 GMT

@frederik OK. Thank you.

Im looking for a job

Nino — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:10:26 GMT

Hi forum. As headline says, Im in need for a job. Not sure if this is right place for this topic, but why not (I guess) Degree form Design of visual communications (2016) Few published typefamilys Adobe CS, RoboRont, FontLab, Glyphs, (basic Python) Loads of branding experience Always had problems with finding new work opportunities, so trying to change approach. Im hardworking and loyal. Never stop learning is my motto Fro more questions or suggestions you can contact here or on ninobodac@gmail.com All suggestions welcome, thanks :D

[[qanda:topic_solved]] What preference setting controls the glyph background colour?

Kris — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:02:28 GMT

Thank you!

validate glyph image

frederik — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:50:26 GMT

oh this is hard :) You are missing image data which is stored in the memory only. f = CurrentFont().asDefcon() g = CurrentGlyph().asDefcon() # a font object has a centralised images object collecting all image data. print(g.image.fileName in f.images) # if the fileName has no data, the image doesnt exist in memory and on disk

guideline properties

ddaanniiieeelll — Wed, 04 May 2022 10:20:32 GMT

Global guidelines are nested in font objects, and local guidelines are in glyph objects. Aha! That makes so much sense, yet I never thought about it. Thanks @Ryan :) I quickly wrote a script that adds local guidelines with specific coordinates for a list of glyphs. That way I can define the overshoots for /O and /o (that's usually two of the characters I draw in the ideation stage already) and put those values in the code that then adds the guidelines to the list of glyphs I defined and where I need them. It’s not a very "programming" way of doing things, but it gets the job done and it’s pretty straight forward without having to many places I can make mistakes :) I was even thinking about making it a small tool or something inside the inspector where one can store the values for UC & lc and on click remove or add local guidelines. Who knows, maybe I can make Tals tool work for me, then I don't need to do anything by myself :)

test install fails to generate font

frederik — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:25:54 GMT

Should be fixed here https://github.com/robotools/ufo2fdk/commit/99a01d340de3ef3c3d86708c45afebd682daab00 and present in the upcoming beta thanks!

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Copying Glyph names from one UFO to other

naorem — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 03:46:15 GMT

Thank you @frederik @Martin

[[qanda:topic_solved]] What is the meaning of the big red X that sometimes appears over a glyph in the font view?

ArrowType — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:28:07 GMT

Excellent, thank you for the answers!

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Where is normal command-Z

roberto arista — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:47:54 GMT

hi @paulinefourest, we did not change the undo behaviour, if you keep having this issue, please let us have a few more details on your setup. 👋

[[qanda:topic_solved]] how to export in TTF

roberto arista — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:03:16 GMT

hey @MARYB here you can find a detailed tutorial 👋

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Best way to remove glyph from RFont?

ArrowType — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:46:20 GMT

As a belated update, I found that the script above didn’t handle Template Glyphs well. It would remove all template glyphs from the font. This current version of the script handles template glyphs: https://gist.github.com/arrowtype/9ef6ce07233af2d80bc0bfb4290d642c

Intentional/In Progress/Preferences

frederik — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:19:38 GMT

the curve disappearing is solved in the upcoming beta and release thanks!!

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Location test installed fonts

frederik — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:46:54 GMT

He Pepijn! Test installed fonts are not saved to disk. They are accessible by family/style name for your user everywhere on your system.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Monterey OS upgrade

frederik — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:30:10 GMT

RoboFont works fine on Monetery. Some extensions with from AppKit import * fails to load. This is already fixed in most extension. This bug is reported in the repository of pyobjc and should be fixed with the next version of pyobjc (which will be embedded in the next version of RoboFont)

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Check Kerning

frederik — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:29:55 GMT

FYI: fontParts has font.kerning.find(("A", "V")) dont know why its not in the documentation.

What might be the fastest and most accurate way to add a set of required glyphs to a UFO?

ArrowType — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:11:04 GMT

you can define a character set as a Set in the left sidebar Wow, I genuinely never knew this feature existed. I think that will be super useful! Thanks so much for pointing it out to me.

first attempt at Subscriber + Merz

gferreira — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:40:07 GMT

he @frederik thanks for the pointers, it’s working pretty well now – see the updated gist. still trying to understand the part about initialization of window and observers, and how to use registerSubscriberEvent etc. – so the panel can also be opened without the Glyph Editor. I will ammend my post above with some answers. any suggestions on how to improve the code are welcome! cheers

Installing a PyPI module by code

Max Ilinov — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 23:21:00 GMT

Hi! I'm trying to install a module from PyPI by code and it returns an error. I've tried this: import pip pip.main(['install', 'package_name']) and it fails with the output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/__init__.py", line 16, in main File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/utils/entrypoints.py", line 3, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 10, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 9, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 7, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 23, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/cli/progress_bars.py", line 12, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/utils/logging.py", line 18, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 33, in File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/pip/_internal/locations.py", line 15, in File "distutils/command/install.pyc", line 18, in ImportError: cannot import name 'USER_BASE' from 'site' (/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/site.pyc) Also, I've tried this: import sys import subprocess output = subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "package_name"], capture_output=True) print(output) and got almost the same report with USER_BASE can't be imported, and also the same with pip show as subprocess. What I'm doing wrong?