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  Create a font object but not open
  scripting documentation • • joanca  

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  I bundled all documentation on a single html page. http://doc.robofont.com/the-complete-robofont-guide/
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  Copy font info
  scripting font info • • jo  

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  hi frederik I cannot say for sure. I think I changed something in the Name Setting. Either the General Identification fields or the Postscript Identification. I did not change the values with a script this time but "manually". Sorry I cannot provide any better information. jo
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  AppendBPoint outputs NotImplementedError
  scripting points • • jo  

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  hi frederik, that is a great help. segments obviously come along with some points. thanks a lot! jo
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  RF speed / performance
  scripting performance • • jmickel  

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  That will not change much. But in the next version you will be able to open a glyph window for a font that has no UI. from mojo.UI import OpenGlyphWindow, OpenSpaceCenter path = u"path/to/a/font.ufo" f = OpenFont(path, showUI=False) # opens glyphs "a" in a glyph window OpenGlyphWindow(f["a"]) OpenSpaceCenter(f)
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  Remove Glyph as alt-delete (robofab?)
  scripting template glyphs • • joanca  

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  The gray template glyph cells are being build up for new UFOs from the character set in the preferences and for existing UFOs the font lib key public.glyphOrder if the lib key is existing. You can alter the data in the lib easily with interaction with the UI by: font = CurrentFont() glyphOrder = font.glyphOrder glyphOrder.remove("a") # test before removing a name if its in the list font.glyphOrder = glyphOrder # done This is sort of what happens when you alt-delete a glyph in the font overview. good luck
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  Global measurement line
  guidelines measuring • • bas  

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  nope, use guides and enable "Show Measurements"
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  Glyph has changed
  user interface defcon • • thom  

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  see how defcon is managing his representation factories: RoboFont uses a subclass to build the glyph cells see http://code.typesupply.com/browser/packages/defconAppKit/trunk/Lib/defconAppKit/representationFactories/glyphCellFactory.py use addRepresentationFactory to register a new one see http://code.typesupply.com/browser/packages/defcon/trunk/Lib/defcon/objects/glyph.py#L8 good luck
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  Build single one-time operation tool/button in glyph window, like RemoveOverlap
  scripting editing tools remove overlap • • franz  

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  For now, I haven't found a way to directly insert my toolbarItem into the toolbar as I couldn't get insertItemWithItemIdentifier:()atIndex:() to work in the context of my script/extension, but probably I'm just being daft here. So currently I read all the items in the glyph window toolbar, add my item, and use vanilla's addToolbar method to replace the toolbar. That's looking good so far, all the previously present items are there, glyph tools work, and my item shows up (not as a button yet, that's lined up next). RemoveOverlap in the replaced toolbar crashes right now when clicked (I guess I'm somehow breaking the delegate or something), but I hope to get that sorted, too.
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  Template Preview Font missing characters
  unicode template glyphs • • jmickel  

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  As mentions in red at the bottom of the preferences if you change the template font: Template glyphs preview font will be applied after a restart.
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  Add Unicode
  unicode fonttools • • bas  

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  Note that this changed in AGLFN 1.7
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  Glyphs displayed in layer colors in font overview window
  user interface layers • • marksimonson  

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  make the glyph cell smaller :) or see the link Bas posted.
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  Can't install robofont shell command
  scripting shell command • • joanca  

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  well spaces in a folder are never a good idea :)
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  RemoveOverlap error?
  remove overlap • • thom  

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  this is a known issue, and will be solved in the next version. It will not take that long to release the next version :) (if you want to be sure this is fixed you can send the glif file, so I can test it) thanks
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  Close contour
  user interaction contours • • bas  

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  The problem starts of course when there is more than one open contour… But basically I don't care when RF fucks it up in those cases (you do), if it already works with 1 hotkey and 1 open contour it would be an improvement already.
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  Trouble Generating Font/Test Install
  font generation opentype features test install • • daifoldes  

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  super!
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  Features update
  scripting opentype features • • thom  

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  Yes, this is easier and does exactly what I want! Thanks Frederik!
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  RemoveOverlap Error
  remove overlap • • joanca  

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  thanks for the data this should be fixed in the next version
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  Bitmap image background: reimporting from FLS to RoboFont?
  scripting images vfb • • mathieu-christe  

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  Yo, Thank you for the hint. Although I did some visual overall scaling and shifting in FLS, using a script, once I've found the right settings in RoboFont, I'll manage to reimport all my images. Best
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  GlyphPreview performance
  extensions observers interpolation • • tom  

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  This seems to fix my problem, thanks so much! One more thing, what would be the name of the observer for if a glyph is modified?—so that I can update the preview as you make changes. Is there a list somewhere of all the built in observers? Cheers!
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  Custom rotation tool
  scripting editing tools • • yanone  

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  can you elaborate what you want to achieve with the special rotation behavior? you can build a custom tool and draw the selected points yourself: s = 5 ## / scale # in a tool you can get the scale value for x, y in CurrentGlyph().selection: oval(x-s, y-s, s*2, s*2)