Feature Preview Error: required argument is not an integer

martin

Hi there,

I got a font that generates well but when I use Feature Preview I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "featurePreview.py", line 424, in _compileFeatureFont
  File "featurePreview.py", line 53, in __init__
  File "featurePreview.py", line 85, in buildBinaryFont
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/fontBuilder.py", line 352, in save
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py", line 172, in save
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py", line 211, in _save
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py", line 632, in _writeTable
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py", line 650, in getTableData
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_h_e_a_d.py", line 83, in compile
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontTools/misc/sstruct.py", line 74, in pack
struct.error: required argument is not an integer

Any ideas what that might be triggered by?

frederik

a wild guess: your units per em is a float (a number with a decimal) instead of an integer

f = CurrentFont()
f.info.unitsPerEm = int(round(f.info.unitsPerEm))

frederik

also fixed in Feature preview, see https://github.com/typemytype/featurePreviewRoboFontExtension/commit/d37f6582d898464cb7f270376b47d06ca3f1db08

martin

Hi @frederik, thanks for looking into this but the problem persists, the value had been an integer. Any other likely candidates? (I (visually) looked and could not find any floats except for version in font info.)

martin

Wait, I did run your script to make sure but looking at fontinfo.plist I find that the value is unchanged and still not an integer:

<real>1000.0</real>

Changing it manually to

<integer>1000</integer>

does the trick!

SOLVED Feature Preview Error: required argument is not an integer