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  SOLVED Location test installed fonts
  • pepijnpino  

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  He Pepijn! Test installed fonts are not saved to disk. They are accessible by family/style name for your user everywhere on your system.
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  SOLVED Monterey OS upgrade
  • Colo-in-NYC  

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  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)
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  SOLVED Check Kerning
  scripting kerning • • thom  

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  FYI: fontParts has font.kerning.find(("A", "V")) dont know why its not in the documentation.
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  What might be the fastest and most accurate way to add a set of required glyphs to a UFO?
  • ArrowType  

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  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.
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  first attempt at Subscriber + Merz
  • gferreira  

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  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
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  Installing a PyPI module by code
  • Max Ilinov  

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  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?
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  SOLVED RoboFont 101 or help me get started
  • Nino  

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  Hey @Nino, welcome! I wrote a bit about this exact topic on my blog somewhat recently: https://blog.arrowtype.com/robofont-tips/
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  SOLVED What is the preferences label for the Glyph Window background?
  • ArrowType  

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  Perfect, that’s it! Thanks. And ha, maybe I’ll leave the unexpected blue. :)
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  Mac M1 processor on RoboFont
  python macbook proccesor • • Juantte  

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  hi @Juantte! RoboFont 4.0 was released this summer with several changes in the drawing API. Many extensions have not been updated yet, but the community is catching up! https://forum.robofont.com/topic/804/robofont-four/2 There is no specific problem with the M1 processor
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  SOLVED BCP mirrored value transform not working
  points editing tools selection hot keys mirrored • • eduairet  

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  @frederik Thanks!
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  SOLVED All Bitmap Font
  • Matt Severin  

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  he Matt It is possible to import an image into a glyph. The image will be visible when you make the font overview cell bigger (see the slider at the bottom) RF does not generate color fonts. There are already some extensions generating color fonts like RoboChrome. However RoboChrome does not build SIBX table from glyph image data. Here is a small script that does generate a .ttf and adds all images in a SBIX table. hope this helps: import os from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont from fontTools.ttLib.tables._s_b_i_x import table__s_b_i_x from fontTools.ttLib.tables.sbixStrike import Strike from fontTools.ttLib.tables.sbixGlyph import Glyph as sbixGlyph from lib.tools.misc import tiff2png import AppKit bitmapSizes = [1000] font = CurrentFont() def getImageData(image): x, y, maxx, maxy = image.bounds w = maxx - x h = maxy - y ciImage, imageRect = glyph.image.getRepresentation("doodle.CIImageFiltered") alpha = 1 if image.color: alpha = image.color.alpha im = AppKit.NSImage.alloc().initWithSize_((w, h)) im.lockFocus() t = AppKit.NSAffineTransform.alloc().init() t.setTransformStruct_(image.transformation) t.concat() ciImage.drawAtPoint_fromRect_operation_fraction_((-x, -y), imageRect, AppKit.NSCompositeSourceOver, alpha) im.unlockFocus() return tiff2png(im.TIFFRepresentation()) if font is not None: ttfpath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), f"{font.info.familyName}-{font.info.styleName}.ttf") font.generate(format="ttf", path=ttfpath) ft = TTFont(ttfpath) sbix = table__s_b_i_x("sbix") for ppem in sorted(bitmapSizes): currentStrike = Strike(ppem=ppem) for glyph in font: if glyph.image: imageData = getImageData(glyph.image) originOffsetX, originOffsetY = glyph.image.offset currentStrike.glyphs[glyph.name] = sbixGlyph( glyphName=glyph.name, graphicType="png", originOffsetX=int(round(originOffsetX)), originOffsetY=int(round(originOffsetY)), imageData=imageData ) sbix.strikes[ppem] = currentStrike ft["sbix"] = sbix ft.save(ttfpath) ft.close()
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  SOLVED RF3 > RF4 Discount Code
  • jack  

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  Thanks @frederik! Saw it come through the other day 🙌🏼
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  SOLVED RF3 to RF4 Upgrade with discount
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  @frederik Thank you! Looking forward.
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  SOLVED RF3 to RF4 discount + RF3 license invalidated
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  All sorted now, thank you.
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  SOLVED ZSH or Bash for default shell
  • GregThompson  

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  RoboFont can install a command line tool which is accessible in terminal by calling roboFont. The tool will be installed in /usr/local/bin/roboFont. The command line interface accepts python scripts only. read more: https://robofont.com/documentation/tutorials/using-robofont-from-command-line/ https://robofont.com/documentation/reference/workspace/preferences-window/extensions/#shell
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  SOLVED Does the RoboFont 4 Glyph View still have Rulers?
  • ArrowType  

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  thanks Stephen and Jan, great extensions!
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  Export MM Pair List
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  Did we find out where the problem with the Help menu is? I have no real problem at the moment, but it couldn’t hurt to have access to it just in case. RF 3.4 and MM 1.1.0 (everything recently updated)
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  SOLVED Robofont 4 release date?
  • naorem  

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  Hi @naorem, we are polishing a few details and we’ll soon publish version 4.0. It is a matter of days! Thanks for your patience!
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  SOLVED Multiple replacement rule in .designspace
  • ewalthert  

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  every gap inbetween is infinite, how small it might be... and will result in a flickering default glyph. I guess it depends more on how you set up your instances: if you have an instance at 300-700 then I would rather change the rule to substitute at 300-701 701-1000 instead, so you know what you get at the instance.
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  SOLVED Version 3.5b speed issue on OS x Big Sur
  • naorem  

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  I have the same issue. Virtually unusable atm.