Is import of vector formats implemented?

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

@MikeW

I didn’t think I asked for wider vector import support.

No, but that’s the topic of the discussion started by Branais.

@MikeW

Why cannot FC just do that upon import?

Exporting from one program and importing to another is apparently not as easy as one might imagine. That’s why I think it is best avoided. If you’re exporting to Truetype outlines it would be best to draw with Truetype curves, and with Postscript curves if exporting to CFF postscript outlines.

@MikeW

There are also scripts that automate this and can act upon selected nodes. It takes a couple seconds. This is something that I doubt can make it into FC.

Scripting might be hard to implement, but Erwin has said that it should not be difficult to make transformations proportional. Scripting may be fast, once you have taken a few hours to write the script. Take a look at CompositeData.xml. That saves a lot of work, but it took a lot of writing and testing. It’s still far from perfect.

@MikeW

Trust me, there is less work to deal with the contour than going glyph by glyph and dealing with the dross a transform script does.

You don’t have to look far to see that I am well aware of the work caused by Transform scripts being limited to absolute transformations. I think that scaling transformations proportionally to the stroke weight will remove most, if not all, of those crossed knots resulting in much less work fixing errors.