gridwera.blogg.se - Inkscape svg font editor tutorial

Place it in the Inkscapeshareextension folder. Download convertToSvgFont.inx and convertToSvgFont.py.Here is one table of specialcharacters and their unicode. In the latter case press the Select from Value button to fill in the rest.

Write the character if possible or the unicode “u+” and unicodenumber. Doubleclick the glyphs marked with a red questionmark and choose Element – Glyph Info. Add the unicode you want there or define it in FontForge. Then after running the extension you will find glyphs in the svg code without a unicode defined. A temporary fix will be to design the paths with special characters at the end (highest x-positions) and let the text-string not contain these characters.

I’ve seen that some special characters do not work very well so that will be work in progress.

If you are making a “normal” outline font make sure the outer path is going clockwise and the inner path(s) are counterclockwise or else FontForge will do strange things.

Or else it will not open at the correct places when you use the re-open path extension.

If you want a single line open path font: Be aware of paths you want to keep closed if they contain straight lines: make sure the path is closed before you start.

Fix this by separating these paths so that the minimum x-position fits the path order. Typically the descender of a j extening to the left og the previous i.

If the boundingbox of one path stretches to the left of the path that is supposed to be the previous glyph you will have problems.

Or else you will have the dot in one character and the stem in the next and it will all be corrupted.

If two or more paths build one glyph (like in the character “i”), make sure you combine these paths (Ctrl+K) to one before running the extension.

The paths will be sorted by the minimum x-position of their bounding boxes so the glyph order will be defined by this.

You may move the other guides, but keep the baseline where it is.

Design or paste your paths here and make sure they rest on the baseline.