error message when generating otf

Reply to error message when generating otf on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:02:42 GMT

jo — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:02:42 GMT

i am trying to export an otf and i get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/tools/compileTools.py", line 279, in _executeCommand
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/tools/compileTools.py", line 318, in embedded_makeotf
  File "makeotf.py", line 1504, in getOptions
  File "makeotf.py", line 1520, in checkInputFile
  File "makeotf.py", line 1945, in convertFontIfNeeded
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontTools/misc/py23.py", line 131, in tounicode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

is there a way to figure if this is an issue with my ufo?
(robofont 3.2 on 10.10)
thanks j

Reply to error message when generating otf on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:23:25 GMT

frederik — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:23:25 GMT

I guess it goes wrong a bit earlier...

could you enable save FKD parts next to the UFO in the prefs and see if there are raw fonts generated?

It cannot read the binary font file...
can you send the UFO file?

https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/blob/develop/python/afdko/makeotf.py#L1945

Reply to error message when generating otf on Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:47:25 GMT

frederik — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:47:25 GMT

but having a control char somewhere in the font info is never a good plan (you have the control character 0x80 somewhere)