General Questions

• 

  Integers
  user interaction contours • • bas  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  451
  Views

  

  It true that scaling would result in floating coordinates. But I would rather see advantages in keeping the coordinates with floating numbers. If one has a set of transformations the result would be much better if floating numbers are used instead round the coordinates after each step. use glyph.round() Output will always round all coordinates.
• 

  LowestRecPPEM always set to 3 ?
  font info afdko • • jo  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  519
  Views

  

  mmm, have to look into it (could also be an FDK issue)
• 

  Robofont MetricsMachine
  kerning groups • • jbl  

  1
  0
  Votes
  1
  Posts
  465
  Views

  

  Hi there, The groups created in RF are used as "reference groups" in MM, right? Why not directly as 'standard' groups usable for kerning?
• 

  Swap layers via hot key
  user interaction layers keyboard shortcuts • • jo  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  470
  Views

  

  With swap you move the current layer to an other layer. Flipping would also move the layer glyph to the source layer. The action menu in the layer inspector pane will be gone in the next version. but you can still use: g = CurrentGlyph() g.flipLayers("foreground", "background")
• 

  Five digit unicode values ?
  space center unicode • • jo  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  466
  Views

  

  yeah, python and unicode :) In the next release RoboFont will check if an unicode value is bigger than 0x10000 (65536) to open a Space Center.
• 

  IsFixedPitch lost
  font generation font info afdko • • jo  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  487
  Views

  

  An issue with ufo2fdk is being fixed. see http://code.typesupply.com/changeset/1154 This will be embedded in the next version of RoboFont thanks
• 

  Margins from Beam
  scripting metrics • • traviskochel  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  562
  Views

  

  Great, that will be very helpful! Thanks!
• 

  Contour.index raises AttributeError
  scripting contours • • joanca  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  490
  Views

  

  Well, in this case I don't need it (thought shouldn't it work?) I didn't find glyph.removeCountour() in robofab's documentation :[ Thanks!
• 

  Creating template glyphs?
  preferences template glyphs • • franz  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  573
  Views

  

  Hi Frederik, generating them with a script would be the option I'm after. Good to hear it's coming! F
• 

  Preview layers in Font Collection window
  user interface layers preferences • • bas  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  559
  Views

  

  I was more thinking of a preview hotkey as in the Glyph editor ;-)
• 

  RoboFontError: Glyph not in font
  scripting • • joanca  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  254
  Views

  

  He This will also not work in robofab :) You can check if a glyphName is in the font: f = CurrentFont() gname = "test" if gname in f: print gname else: # f[gname] not in f print "%s not in %s" % (gname, f) good luck
• 

  SOLVED Disable single option of vanilla RadioGroup?
  scripting vanilla • • franz  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  558
  Views

  

  Yes, this is exactly what I need right now! Thanks so much Frederik! Franz
• 

  Undo for multiple glyphs/list?
  scripting undo • • franz  

  8
  0
  Votes
  8
  Posts
  993
  Views

  

  Ok, convinced :-) It's a floating window now. Just pushed 1.1 to github: http://github.com/franzheidl/SidebearingsEQ
• 

  Modifying curves
  user interaction contours • • bas  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  468
  Views

  

  mm, you can make a subclass of the EditTool and overwrite the modifyDraggingPoint(point, delta) method to ignore 45° and only look for 0° and 90° angles. But not pref settings (yet, will think about it)
• 

  Disappearing Images
  user interaction images • • daifoldes  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  640
  Views

  

  Also, both large and small images disappear, as I said, but the smaller the image, the further I have to zoom out to make it reappear. I hope that is a meaningful clue for you.
• 

  Short key scripts
  preferences keyboard shortcuts • • bas  

  6
  0
  Votes
  6
  Posts
  870
  Views

  

  You can also set the keyboard shortcuts through System Prefs > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts. This allows a greater range of keys and modifiers. http://cl.ly/3u05140G2S353P3F1u3e
• 

  Adding A Single Extreme Point
  points • • summerour  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  713
  Views

  

  when will the next version be released? Robothon?
• 

  Subsetting
  opentype features subsetting • • bas  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  666
  Views

  

  it will remove the glyph name from all groups in font.groups and it will remove the kerning pair of one of two is equal to the removed glyph so when a user removes glyph 'A', it will remove (if those settings are enabled): font.kerning[('A', 'V')] font.kerning[('A', 'myKerningGroups')] font.kerning[('V', 'A')]
• 

  Space Center: copying the input string along with the control glyphs?
  scripting space center • • mathieu-christe  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  608
  Views

  

  Thanks a lot, it does the trick. Note to users: ## print them nicely means with a wordspace between each glyph. For proofing, I need to get rid of the space, so I simply removed it between the quotes: print " ".join(allGlyphs) → print "".join(allGlyphs)
• 

  Working with a bitmap image background: slow down
  user interaction images • • mathieu-christe  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  605
  Views

  

  from Matthieu's email: What I mean by slow down is that every time I place a point, there's a lag between placing it and pulling the handle. This should be immediate, which is the case when there isn't any bitmap image. There is a tiny distance that the mouse has to move before a bcp is added. RoboFont is doing so to prevent unnecessary adding bcp. But it seems like the zoom level isnt really taking into account to calculate the minimal mouse dragged distance in order to create/add a new bcp hope this make sense and will be solved in the next version. thanks