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  ReadMeFirst
  • gferreira  

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  Before posting on the forum, please make sure to read the following pages in the documentation: Asking for help Dealing with errors in your code Submitting bug reports Formatting your post The forum supports formatting with Markdown. When posting code, used fenced codeblocks with the appropriate language tags: python for Python code console for code output ```python f = CurrentFont() for g in f: print g ``` ```console Traceback (most recent call last): File "<untitled>", line 2, in <module> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable ``` Code samples When asking questions about code, please try to simplify code samples as much as possible – try to abstract the actual programming problem from the particularities of your project. This makes it easier for others to understand the issue and provide a helpful answer.
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  UNSOLVED Existing script to scale UPM, plus dimensions, glyphs, components, kerning, etc?
  • ArrowType  

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  @ArrowType Feel free to check out my extension Slinky on Mechanic!
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  Remove overlap all glyphs
  remove overlap • • jn  

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  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
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  SOLVED Only PNG images can be added by a script?
  scripting fontparts images • • nowell  

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  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.
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  SOLVED Severe slowdown when using Inspector
  • doreuli  

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  Conversation moved to RF discord. Marked as solved.
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  SOLVED Reference glyphs in Glyph Editor
  • benben  

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  Conversation moved to RF discord. Marked as solved.
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  SOLVED Font overview window + Outliner extension
  • kestlerio  

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  @frederik Thank you! I will take a look.
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  SOLVED Kerning offset overflow
  kerning • • matterofsorts  

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  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!
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  SOLVED Short Keys for Tools not working?
  • kfdesign  

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  @frederik OK. Thank you.
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  Im looking for a job
  • Nino  

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  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
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  SOLVED What preference setting controls the glyph background colour?
  • Kris  

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  Thank you!
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  validate glyph image
  • mr  

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  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
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  guideline properties
  • ddaanniiieeelll  

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  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 :)
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  test install fails to generate font
  • ddaanniiieeelll  

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  Should be fixed here https://github.com/robotools/ufo2fdk/commit/99a01d340de3ef3c3d86708c45afebd682daab00 and present in the upcoming beta thanks!
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  SOLVED Copying Glyph names from one UFO to other
  • naorem  

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  Thank you @frederik @Martin
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  SOLVED What is the meaning of the big red X that sometimes appears over a glyph in the font view?
  • ArrowType  

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  Excellent, thank you for the answers!
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  SOLVED Where is normal command-Z
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  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. 👋
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  SOLVED how to export in TTF
  • MARYB  

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  hey @MARYB here you can find a detailed tutorial 👋
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  SOLVED Best way to remove glyph from RFont?
  scripting kerning opentype features groups • • RafaŁ Buchner  

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  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
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  Intentional/In Progress/Preferences
  • FosterType  

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