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- Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
- Topic: [FIXED] Curious bug with PDF import?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6640
Re: Curious bug with PDF import?
So it's not something that I have to report to the Inkscape people? I was busy with other things so haven't done that yet.
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:35 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
- Topic: [FIXED] Curious bug with PDF import?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6640
Re: Curious bug with PDF import?
If I rewrite the PDF using the GhostScript method shown at https://superuser.com/questions/278562/how-can-i-fix-repair-a-corrupted-pdf-file then I am able to import into FC without any problem. But when the original PDF output by Inkscape can be opened in other readers, it would be good if FC can im...
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
- Topic: [FIXED] Curious bug with PDF import?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6640
Re: Curious bug with PDF import?
So it is a bug in Inkscape PDF write?
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
- Topic: [FIXED] Curious bug with PDF import?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6640
[FIXED] Curious bug with PDF import?
Hello. Previously I used to have no problem with importing PDF files. But can't seem to import newly created ones. This is same with my old FC 6.5 and a friend's new FC 12. I attach two files. One, not-working.pdf is created with latest Inkscape, and doesn't get imported. The metadata says it was cr...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:26 am
- Forum: Specification
- Topic: Reducing cubic bezier to quadratic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 30740
Re: Reducing cubic bezier to quadratic
HErwin Denissen wrote:It is not just a number, as it involves a formula. But if it helps, the constant used in the formula is 2.
Hi thanks -- I have the de Casteljau formula implemented, no problem. From your statement above, I will assume that 2 em units is the tolerance used. Thanks.
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:21 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
- Topic: Align toolbar buttons Send to back etc -- what are they for?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5058
Re: Align toolbar buttons Send to back etc -- what are they
I agree, these are not very important features, but it allows one to define contours in a preferred order. Hi Erwin and thanks for your reply. I just now drew two overlapping circles in FC, and tried clicking on the intersection between them, and find that the contour which is conceptually "in...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:09 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
- Topic: Align toolbar buttons Send to back etc -- what are they for?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5058
Align toolbar buttons Send to back etc -- what are they for?
Hello. The Align and Distribute has four buttons -- Bring to front, send to back, bring forward, send back -- it is not clear to me what these are useful for in FC. Can anyone please elucidate? In general purpose vector editors the objects surely have a z-order (which I think is merely implemented a...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:08 am
- Forum: Specification
- Topic: Reducing cubic bezier to quadratic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 30740
Re: Reducing cubic bezier to quadratic
There is no easy answer. You don't want to end up with too many points, but you do want an accurate conversion. I think FontCreator does a nice job, but there is always room for improvement. Hi Erwin and thanks for your reply. I was not trying to comment on the quality of FC's conversion of cubics ...
- Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:49 am
- Forum: Specification
- Topic: Reducing cubic bezier to quadratic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 30740
Reducing cubic bezier to quadratic
Hello. FC has to convert cubic beziers to a series of quadratics when it imports postscript-based vector images. In general, this conversion is only an approximation as most cubic beziers are not exactly representable by one or even more than one quadratic. http://fontforge.org/bezier.html#ps2ttf di...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:32 pm
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Clarifications about em units, point size and line spacing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8416
Clarifications about em units, point size and line spacing
Hello. As I understand from Erwin's old post one em is equal to the current point size, and the em-units are to enable us to define a font w.r.t. that. For example, in a font with units_per_em=1024, a point with y=512 will be half the point size above the baseline. On screen that is translated into ...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:05 am
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Support for third-order spline fonts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5171
Re: Support for third-order spline fonts
Hello William and thanks for your kind response. However the question was not about being able to draw third-order curves (which I can do using Inkscape on all the platforms that software runs on) but about the support for fonts using third-order splines in the font-rendering subsystem of various pl...
- Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:07 am
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Support for third-order spline fonts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5171
Support for third-order spline fonts
Well by the subject line I do also mean support for third-order spline fonts in FC. Any future plans for supporting them? Apart from that, does anyone have any idea about the support for third-order spline fonts on various platforms/software? Windows XP? Windows 7? Word 2003? Word 2010? Linux? (I pr...
- Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:16 am
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: How to remove all OpenType tables from a font?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5389
Re: How to remove all OpenType tables from a font?
Select the Tables command from the Format menu, and go to the Unsupported page. Then delete these tables if present: BASE, DSIG, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB, and JSTF. Thanks. It is strange though that this is exactly what I did (well I just deleted all "Unsupported" tables) and it didn't work the f...
- Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:27 am
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: How to remove all OpenType tables from a font?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5389
How to remove all OpenType tables from a font?
Unfortunately I've never been a fan of OpenType, having been frustrated with its inability in handling rare-use scripts and even in existing scripts the rare Sanskrit sequences I often need to use. I am thinking of rewriting many of my local fonts with Graphite . Can anyone tell me what to do to rem...
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:10 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
- Topic: Copy-pasting glyphs also retains hinting?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8488
Re: Copy-pasting glyphs also retains hinting?
Thanks everyone for your replies.