Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge
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Greetings'
I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimized—as it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing.
I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable.
Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs?
I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer
I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives
of the mailing lists.
Thank you, Simon Håkansson
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:24:58 +0000, you wrote:
> > > >________________________________ > > >Greetings' > > > >I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimizedas it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing. To me, the FF lines appear to change their thickness as they go. Is that the problem you're having? If it is, I'd suggest that it's a difference in how FF places (interpolates for) partial pixels. This might be able to be solved by changing the nominal per-character resolution in FF from 1 000 pixels to, e.g., 10 000 pixels (I've not tried this, so it might be that 10 000 pixels is out of range for FF, but it's worth investigating, and even if you can't go to 10 000 you might be able to solve the problem at some smaller increase such as 5 000) If it is an interpolation problem, upping the resolution that way might help, since FF would then be able to place the controlling nodes more in accord with your intention. Once the font is created, you might have to fool around with point sizes, e.g. using 10pt where you would use 100pt for some other font, since the scaling algorithm would be dealing with nominal metrics 10X the usual size, linearly. Or the interpreters might already understand that 10 000 isn't really meant to be 10X the size of any other chars, and preserve the usual point-sizing "for free". If it is an iterpolation problem, but you can't up the resolution sufficiently, your only other choice is to look closely at what FF is doing (is it squeezing or expanding or both?) and try to out-guess it, modifying your node positions by hand. The very definition of "tedious", of course, but it should work. > > >I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable. > > >Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs? > > >I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer > > >I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives of the mailing lists. > > >Thank you, > >Simon Håkansson > > >(this is my second try, I sent this mail around two weeks ago with png images instead of gif, the file size exceeded 40Kb and I was told that it was awaiting moderation, it never happened, thus I'm uploading again) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
Re: Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge
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Hello, your reply managed to get into my junk folder so I completely missed it until now.
I have looked through the various settings available but can't find any that reference the nominal per-character resolution, could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks, Simon From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]>
Sent: 24 April 2017 22:46 To: Discussion forum for fontforge users Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:24:58 +0000, you wrote:
> > > >________________________________ > > >Greetings' > > > >I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimized—as it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing. To me, the FF lines appear to change their thickness as they go. Is that the problem you're having? If it is, I'd suggest that it's a difference in how FF places (interpolates for) partial pixels. This might be able to be solved by changing the nominal per-character resolution in FF from 1 000 pixels to, e.g., 10 000 pixels (I've not tried this, so it might be that 10 000 pixels is out of range for FF, but it's worth investigating, and even if you can't go to 10 000 you might be able to solve the problem at some smaller increase such as 5 000) If it is an interpolation problem, upping the resolution that way might help, since FF would then be able to place the controlling nodes more in accord with your intention. Once the font is created, you might have to fool around with point sizes, e.g. using 10pt where you would use 100pt for some other font, since the scaling algorithm would be dealing with nominal metrics 10X the usual size, linearly. Or the interpreters might already understand that 10 000 isn't really meant to be 10X the size of any other chars, and preserve the usual point-sizing "for free". If it is an iterpolation problem, but you can't up the resolution sufficiently, your only other choice is to look closely at what FF is doing (is it squeezing or expanding or both?) and try to out-guess it, modifying your node positions by hand. The very definition of "tedious", of course, but it should work. > > >I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable. > > >Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs? > > >I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer > > >I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives of the mailing lists. > > >Thank you, > >Simon Håkansson > > >(this is my second try, I sent this mail around two weeks ago with png images instead of gif, the file size exceeded 40Kb and I was told that it was awaiting moderation, it never happened, thus I'm uploading again) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users
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I run the editor under FreeBSD, so there might be some
differences to your setup. But in mine, it seems to be in Element -> Font Info -> General, where it shows nominal values for em size, ascent, descent, underline position, etc. Em size is a dropdown list, giving me a choice of 1000, 1024, 2048, and 4096. But the field is editable, and appears willing to go up to at least 100 000, the dependent values scaling automagically. I didn't try to make that value permanent because the font is one I'm working on, but there weren't any preliminary complaints from FF. On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:10:24 +0000, you wrote: >Hello, your reply managed to get into my junk folder so I completely missed it until now. > > >I have looked through the various settings available but can't find any that reference the nominal per-character resolution, could you point me in the right direction? > > >Thanks, > >Simon > > >________________________________ >From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> >Sent: 24 April 2017 22:46 >To: Discussion forum for fontforge users >Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge > >On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:24:58 +0000, you wrote: > >> >> >> >>________________________________ >> >> >>Greetings' >> >> >> >>I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimizedas it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing. > > >To me, the FF lines appear to change their thickness as they go. >Is that the problem you're having? > >If it is, I'd suggest that it's a difference in how FF places >(interpolates for) partial pixels. This might be able to be >solved by changing the nominal per-character resolution in FF >from 1 000 pixels to, e.g., 10 000 pixels (I've not tried this, >so it might be that 10 000 pixels is out of range for FF, but >it's worth investigating, and even if you can't go to 10 000 you >might be able to solve the problem at some smaller increase such >as 5 000) > >If it is an interpolation problem, upping the resolution that way >might help, since FF would then be able to place the controlling >nodes more in accord with your intention. Once the font is >created, you might have to fool around with point sizes, e.g. >using 10pt where you would use 100pt for some other font, since >the scaling algorithm would be dealing with nominal metrics 10X >the usual size, linearly. Or the interpreters might already >understand that 10 000 isn't really meant to be 10X the size of >any other chars, and preserve the usual point-sizing "for free". > >If it is an iterpolation problem, but you can't up the resolution >sufficiently, your only other choice is to look closely at what >FF is doing (is it squeezing or expanding or both?) and try to >out-guess it, modifying your node positions by hand. The very >definition of "tedious", of course, but it should work. > > >> >> >>I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable. > > > > >> >> >>Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs? >> >> >>I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer >> >> >>I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives of the mailing lists. >> >> >>Thank you, >> >>Simon Håkansson >> >> >>(this is my second try, I sent this mail around two weeks ago with png images instead of gif, the file size exceeded 40Kb and I was told that it was awaiting moderation, it never happened, thus I'm uploading again) > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >_______________________________________________ >fontforge-users mailing list >[hidden email] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users >fontforge-users Info Page - lists.sourceforge.net<https://lists.sourceforgenet/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users> >lists.sourceforge.net >Discussion forum for fontforge users. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the fontforge-users Archives. Using fontforge-users > > > >http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html >Fontforge - User | Mailing List Archive<http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html> >fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com >User forum and mailing list archive. ... This forum is an archive for the mailing list [hidden email] (more options) Messages posted here will ... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
Re: Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge
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Hello,
did you try to open in Inkscape your svg files created with Illustrator and then save them as svg from Inkscape ? I use Inkscape daily to create my fonts and don't have problems to bring them to FontForge without deformations. ivan Le 29/04/17 à 13:19, [hidden email] a écrit : > I run the editor under FreeBSD, so there might be some > differences to your setup. But in mine, it seems to be in > Element -> Font Info -> General, where it shows nominal values > for em size, ascent, descent, underline position, etc. Em size > is a dropdown list, giving me a choice of 1000, 1024, 2048, and > 4096. But the field is editable, and appears willing to go up to > at least 100 000, the dependent values scaling automagically. I > didn't try to make that value permanent because the font is one > I'm working on, but there weren't any preliminary complaints from > FF. > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:10:24 +0000, you wrote: > >> Hello, your reply managed to get into my junk folder so I completely missed it until now. >> >> >> I have looked through the various settings available but can't find any that reference the nominal per-character resolution, could you point me in the right direction? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Simon >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> >> Sent: 24 April 2017 22:46 >> To: Discussion forum for fontforge users >> Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge >> >> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:24:58 +0000, you wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> >>> >>> Greetings' >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimized—as it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing. >> >> To me, the FF lines appear to change their thickness as they go. >> Is that the problem you're having? >> >> If it is, I'd suggest that it's a difference in how FF places >> (interpolates for) partial pixels. This might be able to be >> solved by changing the nominal per-character resolution in FF > >from 1 000 pixels to, e.g., 10 000 pixels (I've not tried this, >> so it might be that 10 000 pixels is out of range for FF, but >> it's worth investigating, and even if you can't go to 10 000 you >> might be able to solve the problem at some smaller increase such >> as 5 000) >> >> If it is an interpolation problem, upping the resolution that way >> might help, since FF would then be able to place the controlling >> nodes more in accord with your intention. Once the font is >> created, you might have to fool around with point sizes, e.g. >> using 10pt where you would use 100pt for some other font, since >> the scaling algorithm would be dealing with nominal metrics 10X >> the usual size, linearly. Or the interpreters might already >> understand that 10 000 isn't really meant to be 10X the size of >> any other chars, and preserve the usual point-sizing "for free". >> >> If it is an iterpolation problem, but you can't up the resolution >> sufficiently, your only other choice is to look closely at what >> FF is doing (is it squeezing or expanding or both?) and try to >> out-guess it, modifying your node positions by hand. The very >> definition of "tedious", of course, but it should work. >> >> >>> >>> I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable. >> >> >> >>> >>> Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs? >>> >>> >>> I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer >>> >>> >>> I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives of the mailing lists. >>> >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Simon Håkansson >>> >>> >>> (this is my second try, I sent this mail around two weeks ago with png images instead of gif, the file size exceeded 40Kb and I was told that it was awaiting moderation, it never happened, thus I'm uploading again) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> fontforge-users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users >> fontforge-users Info Page - lists.sourceforge.net<https://lists.sourceforgenet/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users> >> lists.sourceforge.net >> Discussion forum for fontforge users. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the fontforge-users Archives. Using fontforge-users >> >> >> >> http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html >> Fontforge - User | Mailing List Archive<http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html> >> fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com >> User forum and mailing list archive. ... This forum is an archive for the mailing list [hidden email] (more options) Messages posted here will ... >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > fontforge-users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users > http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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Thanks for your suggestions Gé van Gasteren and cratch65535, changing the em size did nothing, the problems remain even when I set it to the max of 16384. I think I'll have to look into other font creation software
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Sent: 29 April 2017 11:19 To: Discussion forum for fontforge users Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge I run the editor under FreeBSD, so there might be some
differences to your setup. But in mine, it seems to be in Element -> Font Info -> General, where it shows nominal values for em size, ascent, descent, underline position, etc. Em size is a dropdown list, giving me a choice of 1000, 1024, 2048, and 4096. But the field is editable, and appears willing to go up to at least 100 000, the dependent values scaling automagically. I didn't try to make that value permanent because the font is one I'm working on, but there weren't any preliminary complaints from FF. On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:10:24 +0000, you wrote: >Hello, your reply managed to get into my junk folder so I completely missed it until now. > > >I have looked through the various settings available but can't find any that reference the nominal per-character resolution, could you point me in the right direction? > > >Thanks, > >Simon > > >________________________________ >From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> >Sent: 24 April 2017 22:46 >To: Discussion forum for fontforge users >Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge > >On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:24:58 +0000, you wrote: > >> >> >> >>________________________________ >> >> >>Greetings' >> >> >> >>I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimized—as it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing. > > >To me, the FF lines appear to change their thickness as they go. >Is that the problem you're having? > >If it is, I'd suggest that it's a difference in how FF places >(interpolates for) partial pixels. This might be able to be >solved by changing the nominal per-character resolution in FF >from 1 000 pixels to, e.g., 10 000 pixels (I've not tried this, >so it might be that 10 000 pixels is out of range for FF, but >it's worth investigating, and even if you can't go to 10 000 you >might be able to solve the problem at some smaller increase such >as 5 000) > >If it is an interpolation problem, upping the resolution that way >might help, since FF would then be able to place the controlling >nodes more in accord with your intention. Once the font is >created, you might have to fool around with point sizes, e.g. >using 10pt where you would use 100pt for some other font, since >the scaling algorithm would be dealing with nominal metrics 10X >the usual size, linearly. Or the interpreters might already >understand that 10 000 isn't really meant to be 10X the size of >any other chars, and preserve the usual point-sizing "for free". > >If it is an iterpolation problem, but you can't up the resolution >sufficiently, your only other choice is to look closely at what >FF is doing (is it squeezing or expanding or both?) and try to >out-guess it, modifying your node positions by hand. The very >definition of "tedious", of course, but it should work. > > >> >> >>I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable. > > > > >> >> >>Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs? >> >> >>I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer >> >> >>I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives of the mailing lists. >> >> >>Thank you, >> >>Simon Håkansson >> >> >>(this is my second try, I sent this mail around two weeks ago with png images instead of gif, the file size exceeded 40Kb and I was told that it was awaiting moderation, it never happened, thus I'm uploading again) > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >_______________________________________________ >fontforge-users mailing list >[hidden email] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users
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Before you go, please consider reporting the bug in FontForge's issue tracker: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues Developers do not always follow the users mailing list.On 6 May 2017 at 10:10, Simon Håkansson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Compare the positions of the Bezier control handles in
Illustrator vs FF. Are they the same? They should be, to produce the same result. If they're different, that suggests the solution: move the control handles in FF to match the handles in AI. Or just go through and adjust the handles til the strokes look good, regardless of where the AI handles are. Were I in your place, I'd try to solve the problem using FF. I've used several font editors and FF offers the most control apart, *possibly*, from the VERY expensive "professional" font editors. FF's u/i is definitely an annoying olla podrida, and had I the time I'd fork the source and fix that, but once you get past the craziness, it really is a very competent editor. On Sat, 6 May 2017 08:10:02 +0000, you wrote: >Thanks for your suggestions Gé van Gasteren and cratch65535, changing the em size did nothing, the problems remain even when I set it to the max of 16384. > >I think I'll have to look into other font creation software > > > >________________________________ >From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> >Sent: 29 April 2017 11:19 >To: Discussion forum for fontforge users >Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge > >I run the editor under FreeBSD, so there might be some >differences to your setup. But in mine, it seems to be in >Element -> Font Info -> General, where it shows nominal values >for em size, ascent, descent, underline position, etc. Em size >is a dropdown list, giving me a choice of 1000, 1024, 2048, and >4096. But the field is editable, and appears willing to go up to >at least 100 000, the dependent values scaling automagically. I >didn't try to make that value permanent because the font is one >I'm working on, but there weren't any preliminary complaints from >FF. > >On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:10:24 +0000, you wrote: > >>Hello, your reply managed to get into my junk folder so I completely missed it until now. >> >> >>I have looked through the various settings available but can't find any that reference the nominal per-character resolution, could you point me in the right direction? >> >> >>Thanks, >> >>Simon >> >> >>________________________________ >>From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> >>Sent: 24 April 2017 22:46 >>To: Discussion forum for fontforge users >>Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge >> >>On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:24:58 +0000, you wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>>________________________________ >>> >>> >>>Greetings' >>> >>> >>> >>>I have a set of ca. 300 glyphs that I hoped to transform into a font using FontForge. All glyphs are created in Adobe Illustrator. My problem is, after I import the SVGs (I have also tried other export and import options to no avail) the shape of the bezier curves is altered slightly, but with horrendous effects (see attached images). The shapes are ungrouped outlines that could be further optimizedas it seems such optimization only makes my troubles worse I'm holding off until I can get them to import properly. When viewed with other programs the SVGs appear as they do in illustrator so the fault doesn't seem to be on Adobe's side. I tried updating to the newest version with no difference. changing from cubic to square interpolation of the layers does nothing. >> >> >>To me, the FF lines appear to change their thickness as they go. >>Is that the problem you're having? >> >>If it is, I'd suggest that it's a difference in how FF places >>(interpolates for) partial pixels. This might be able to be >>solved by changing the nominal per-character resolution in FF >>from 1 000 pixels to, e.g., 10 000 pixels (I've not tried this, >>so it might be that 10 000 pixels is out of range for FF, but >>it's worth investigating, and even if you can't go to 10 000 you >>might be able to solve the problem at some smaller increase such >>as 5 000) >> >>If it is an interpolation problem, upping the resolution that way >>might help, since FF would then be able to place the controlling >>nodes more in accord with your intention. Once the font is >>created, you might have to fool around with point sizes, e.g. >>using 10pt where you would use 100pt for some other font, since >>the scaling algorithm would be dealing with nominal metrics 10X >>the usual size, linearly. Or the interpreters might already >>understand that 10 000 isn't really meant to be 10X the size of >>any other chars, and preserve the usual point-sizing "for free". >> >>If it is an iterpolation problem, but you can't up the resolution >>sufficiently, your only other choice is to look closely at what >>FF is doing (is it squeezing or expanding or both?) and try to >>out-guess it, modifying your node positions by hand. The very >>definition of "tedious", of course, but it should work. >> >> >>> >>> >>>I don't know how I should proceed, the only workaround I have found so far is to increase the number of nodes in affected glyphs by a factor of two or three, hardly something that seems desirable. >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>>Is there some hidden setting that changes the way FontForge handles SVGs that could make them appear as they do in other programs? >>> >>> >>>I'm including two examples with the SVG files themselves (the included line is to get the glyphs placed correctly vertically during import) and images of how they appear on my computer >>> >>> >>>I couldn't find anyone else referencing this problem in the archives of the mailing lists. >>> >>> >>>Thank you, >>> >>>Simon Håkansson >>> >>> >>>(this is my second try, I sent this mail around two weeks ago with png images instead of gif, the file size exceeded 40Kb and I was told that it was awaiting moderation, it never happened, thus I'm uploading again) >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>_______________________________________________ >>fontforge-users mailing list >>[hidden email] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users >fontforge-users Info Page - SourceForge<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users> >lists.sourceforge.net >Discussion forum for fontforge users. 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I had some artifacts too but cannot reproduce them with latest FF from
git and reimporting all SVG (via a script). Perhaps this might help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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i had a look at the attached svg files the problem is that the svg files use an "arc" path to draw elliptical pathsdownload and install "inkscape" editor ... https://inkscape.org/en/ import the svg file into "inkscape" save it as an 'eps' file import the resulting eps file into fontforge or you can run from command line: Inkscape -E C.eps C.svg (it will convert C.svg to C.eps without opening inkscape ... can be used in a script to convert a number of files) note: here is an online service that does the same thing ... https://cloudconvert.com/svg-to-eps hope this helps On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Pander <[hidden email]> wrote: I had some artifacts too but cannot reproduce them with latest FF from ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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You are a saint!
Your method worked like a charm' I had actually entirely given up and was putting off shelling out for one of the paid programs out there, haven't worked on it since I posted here.
Inkscape must handle eps differently from illustrator, I did try exporting it as eps but was constantly hitting complexity errors, I did get complexity errors after conversion in Inkscape initially too, but checking "Convert text to paths and unchecking "Rasterize filter effects" under the eps settings did the trick. I do still get a warning about how Fontforge is "unable to parse token dict", hopefully, that won't give me problems further ahead.
Now I only need to learn how to script properly and set up a conversion script.
I am forever thankful Jaromir, I owe you.
Thanks, Simon. From: Js jS <[hidden email]>
Sent: 12 June 2017 08:17 To: Discussion forum for fontforge users Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge i had a look at the attached svg files
the problem is that the svg files use an "arc" path to draw elliptical pathsdownload and install "inkscape" editor ... https://inkscape.org/en/
import the svg file into "inkscape" save it as an 'eps' file import the resulting eps file into fontforge or you can run from command line:
Inkscape -E C.eps C.svg
(it will convert C.svg to C.eps without opening inkscape ... can be used in a script to convert a number of files)
note: here is an online service that does the same thing ... https://cloudconvert.com/svg-to-eps
hope this helps
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I had some artifacts too but cannot reproduce them with latest FF from ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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here is a windows batch file that does the job make a copy of your svg files into a temporary folder copy svg2eps.txt file into the above mentioned temporary folder open file in a text editor like "notepad" and edit line #9 to mach your system rename svg2eps.txt to svg2eps.bat ... ( the file could not be emailed as a .bat file ) double-click svg2eps.bat file icon and it should run new folder named "epsFiles" gets created by the script and all the generated eps files will be placed in the "epsFiles" folder. i do not have linux running on my computer at this time, so i could not test a script that would work in linux or a mac note: i left a bunch of "echo" commands in the file just as an example of how to use variables any line with "echo" can be deleted. first one, though ... "@echo off" supresses the listing of each command before it is executed, so you may wish to leave it in enjoy On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Simon Håkansson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I finally got your batch file to work, at first I thought it was my computer acting up but I found a bug at line 20: FOR /F %%i in ('dir /b "*.svg"') DO CALL :convertFile %%i. Changing this to FOR /f %%i in ('dir /b "*.svg"') DO CALL :convertFile %%i. The batch script works great now.
Thanks a bunch' From: Js jS <[hidden email]>
Sent: 12 June 2017 23:41 To: Discussion forum for fontforge users Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] Imported SVGs are deformed by FontForge here is a windows batch file that does the job
make a copy of your svg files into a temporary folder
copy svg2eps.txt file into the above mentioned temporary folder
open file in a text editor like "notepad" and edit line #9 to mach your system
rename svg2eps.txt to svg2eps.bat ... ( the file could not be emailed as a .bat file )
double-click svg2eps.bat file icon and it should run
new folder named "epsFiles" gets created by the script and all the generated eps files will be placed in the "epsFiles" folder.
i do not have linux running on my computer at this time, so i could not test a script that would work in linux or a mac
note: i left a bunch of "echo" commands in the file just as an example of how to use variables
any line with "echo" can be deleted.
first one, though ... "@echo off" supresses the listing of each command before it is executed, so you may wish to leave it in
enjoy
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Simon Håkansson
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