Proposal For Supporting Smart Components of Glyphs

[JSPDRN]

This Issue is an edited and reposted version. The original issue is from Several Bugs Report


On August 31, 2023, FontCreator was updated to Version 15.0 and the .Glyphs file format was supported in this update. This is a good thing. Despite of this, while opening some project files of .Glyphs, I found something regrettable: the Smart Components in .glyphs files are not supported in FontCreator (especially CJK Characters)

Pick “Dela Gothic” (https://github.com/syakuzen/DelaGothic) as an example:

While opening its TrueType version (https://github.com/syakuzen/DelaGothic/ ... egular.ttf), as is shown in the graph below, components of characters are the same("金"), and proportions of each character's components are adjusted nicely, which makes the glyphs look well and easy to edit.

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But when opening the source file (.glyphs) (https://github.com/syakuzen/DelaGothic/ ... hic.glyphs) with FontCreator, we could find that some of the characters are deformed badly:

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...it seems that ALL smart components the glyphs using are connected to the original version, so the components’ sizes are all the same.

Take 鎤,鎧,鎮 as examples, NOTICE that the sizes of component “金” in the characters are the same, which is not what we want:

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and more...

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The link below may help you learn more about smart components of glyphs in CJK Characters:
https://glyphsapp.com/learn/smart-components

Smart component play an important role in editing characters in Glyphs, therefore I think it's necessary for FontCreator to support smart components (of Glyphs), in order to support for the GlyphsApp .glyphs file format better, improve the efficiency of making glyphs (especially CJK Characters) and boost the users' experience in a great degree.

Joseph

[Erwin Denissen]

Smart component play an important role in editing characters in Glyphs, therefore I think it's necessary for FontCreator to support smart components (of Glyphs), in order to support for the GlyphsApp .glyphs file format better, improve the efficiency of making glyphs (especially CJK Characters) and boost the users' experience in a great degree.

This looks interesting, but requires a lot of work to implement. We would like to know if more people want us to add support for this.

[mujahidalfikri]

Smart component play an important role in editing characters in Glyphs, therefore I think it's necessary for FontCreator to support smart components (of Glyphs), in order to support for the GlyphsApp .glyphs file format better, improve the efficiency of making glyphs (especially CJK Characters) and boost the users' experience in a great degree.

This looks interesting, but requires a lot of work to implement. We would like to know if more people want us to add support for this.

Yes, it would be great to have the smart component feature. And I'm very interested.

[GFares]

This looks interesting, but requires a lot of work to implement. We would like to know if more people want us to add support for this.

Yes, it will be very helpful.