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” (GitHub - syakuzen/DelaGothic: fat sans-serif font) as an example:
While opening its TrueType version (DelaGothic/fonts/ttf/DelaGothicOne-Regular.ttf at master · syakuzen/DelaGothic · GitHub), 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.
But when opening the source file (.glyphs) (DelaGothic/Sources/DelaGothic.glyphs at master · syakuzen/DelaGothic · GitHub) with FontCreator, we could find that some of the characters are deformed badly:
…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:
and more…
The link below may help you learn more about smart components of glyphs in CJK Characters:
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