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

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  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
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  Cannot generate font
  font generation preferences afdko • • odegaard  

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  I think you disabled "Use Embedded FDK" and on your local machine there is no FDK installed, so RoboFont cannot find anything to generate the binary file. see http://doc.robofont.com/documentation/workspace/preferences/misc/
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  BlueScale
  font info ps hinting • • bas  

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  this is a formatting bug in the info sheet thanks for spotting it!
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  Next glyph in set
  user interaction • • bas  

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  Would be a useful improvement for RoboFont.
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  OpenType tables causes corrupt font
  font info afdko opentype • • bas  

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  its idd not the best solution have to come up with a better and more clever way to handle this issue....
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  Outline conversion in woff
  truetype webfonts • • bas  

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  RoboFont will check the splines and convert them to two off curves splines in the next version. (in version 1.1 it doesn't check WOFF files, but it should :) Although WOFF files with PS outlines should work fine. Bonus answer: no ;)
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  Mojo.robofont vs. robofab.world
  scripting • • mbutterick  

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  Yes there will only work in RoboFont, but some have some similarities with the special FL robofab methods. It doesnt matter if you imported it from mojo.roboFont or robofab.world (inside RoboFont) all robofab object will have these additions.
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  Observer callback format
  scripting observers • • mbutterick  

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  Why is info a dict instead of an instance of a reall class defined in mojo.events? I ask about source code because __doc__ seems to be empty for all the mojo.* modules and classes, and the API documentation is missing a lot. I'm looking for a way to supplement my understanding of the API without asking you a hundred questions.
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  Advice on a personal project
  scripting interpolation • • ben  

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  He Ben If you have a python package installed in the current python on your local machine, that package will be accessible in RoboFont. RoboFont is adding the site-packages of the current python to the sys.path. So if you have a python package that can read from a serial port it must be possible to access that package in RoboFont good luck!
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  Equivalent of robofab.RFont.update()
  scripting • • mbutterick  

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  UFOCentral also relies on this technique, no? No. That's a symptom of FL's interface problem, not a feature of the script.
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  Output window colors
  user interface • • mbutterick  

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  no, not possible, yet :) Ive just added new color prefs: http://cl.ly/D5FH will be in the next version
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  Set Mac ID 1 & 2
  font info afdko • • bas  

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  Plausible point of view. (The spec isn't the problem, but it's sometimes problematic to operate in a world where many people are not following the spec (and end-users suffer). In a world where font foundries and application developers are making workarounds for each others workarounds, it's meanwhile impossible to define who is the chicken and who's the egg. Indeed, we're way off topic… :-)
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  Link to local FDK?
  preferences afdko • • bas  

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  :P if its enabled it will use the embedded FDK, if not RoboFonts tries to use the the local installed FDK, if you dont have a FDK installed you are not able to generate binaries. If you want to check if FDK is installed type "which makeotf" in your Terminal. This should return some similar like "/Users/<userName>/bin/FDK/Tools/osx/makeotf"
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  Will there be a window/linux version?
  • frederik  

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  No, and this is also not planned in the far, far, far away future.