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Reply To: Combine selected points into one point

Bas — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:33:42 +0000

It would also be an excellent native function…

Reply To: contour.index raises AttributeError

joanca — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:37:18 +0000

Well, in this case I don’t need it (thought shouldn’t it work?)
I didn’t find glyph.removeCountour() in robofab’s documentation : [

Thanks!

Reply To: Combine selected points into one point

frederik — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:16:37 +0000

That would be an excellent extension :)

Reply To: contour.index raises AttributeError

frederik — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:14:41 +0000

Why do you need the index of the contour?

use:

glyph = CurrentGlyph()
## dont remove and iterate over the same glyph object
## so create a temp list of contours
contoursToRemove = list(glyph)

for contour in contoursToRemove:
    glyph.removeContour(contour)

contour.index raises AttributeError

joanca — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:57:33 +0000

I’m trying to delete a contour (well, some of them) and I get an AttributeError where (I think) shouldn’t as it’s robofab’s (and works in FL this way).

g = CurrentGlyph()
for con in g:
    print g.index

Thanks you!

This reply was modified 8 days ago by frederik.

Combine selected points into one point

Sami — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:43:08 +0000

I would love to select two or more points and say ‘combine points into one point’. This function would calculate the average center of selected points + calculate average bcps for that one point. Would be handy for cleaning paths, for example after auto-tracing. In the next update maybe?

Reply To: Kerning blocks saving

yb — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:32:52 +0000

Hi, yes this is a beta version. Sorry, i’ll send a traceback there.

Reply To: Kerning blocks saving

frederik — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:48:34 +0000

He Yassin

Is there a traceback?
Which version are you using? (If this is an issue with a beta version please use the beta list)

thanks

Kerning blocks saving

yb — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:52:10 +0000

Hi Frederik,

I’m still experiencing problems with the kerning. Today I realised that not only it doesn’t save the kerning, but actually the file is not saving at all after adding kerning pairs.
No idea if it could be connected, but I also get UFO update notifications when I switch between Robofont and other programs, after I created a new glyph. If I accept the update, it simply deletes the new glyph.

I’m wondering, am I the only one having this problem? Something broken on my computer?

Thanks for your help,
Y

Reply To: ‘Simple math’ in the margins

frederik — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:20:58 +0000

I think this is something for an extension :)
and it should not be that difficult to build such an extension

‘Simple math’ in the margins

Thom — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:40:00 +0000

Hi,
Is it a good idea the keep the formula in the margins. If one later change the margins of the ‘base’ glyph, all the glyph with the formula in the margin change also.
Saves time :)

thanks

Reply To: Transforming components

frederik — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:51:52 +0000

The transform options did expand with RoboFont 1.2

It really handy to disable components if you want to transform a selection of glyphs, where there is a mix of hard outlines and components glyphs. If this option isn’t disabled the component is being transformed twice.

Reply To: Transforming components

Bas — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:28:17 +0000

Solution is there already, but very well hidden: activate [Transform components] in Transform prefs at the right bottom corner, and c’est ça. Merci.

Transforming components

Bas — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:21:52 +0000

Manually transforming components is possible, but the Transform functions in the Inspector don’t have any effect on components. That would be handy actually.

Reply To: Delete command could break contour?

Thom — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:42:14 +0000

>Do you want to break a contours from a given list of points?

That one. All the breaking the contour in the docs is by doing it manually (atl+del or right click… etc.). But what about doing it by code?

Reply To: Delete command could break contour?

frederik — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:28:02 +0000

I don’t really understand what you mean.
Do you want to break a contours from a given list of points?
or do you want to break the contour from the point list in the inspector window?

please elaborate your request

thanks

Reply To: Delete command could break contour?

Thom — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:11:53 +0000

is it possible to break the contour on points in a list?

Reply To: Click shift for removing from selection

frederik — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:23:56 +0000

Will be in the next update, but only on mouse down,
and not while dragging the “magnetic” contour selection (otherwise it will only be flipping the selection while dragging)

Click shift for removing from selection

Bas — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:44:43 +0000

Editing tool: command+click = select shape. Adding shift= adding shapes to selection.

Would be nice if shift also works the other way around: removing shapes from selection.

Reply To: Layers disappearing

MarkSimonson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:37:11 +0000

Okay, thanks.

Reply To: Layers disappearing

frederik — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:28:11 +0000

yep, I can reproduce it,
will be fixed in the next update :)
(you can already prevent it by modifying anything the foreground layer)

thanks

Reply To: Layers disappearing

MarkSimonson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:05:09 +0000

RoboFont: 1.2
Prepolator: 1.0.4

The UFOs I’m working with came from FontLab (using UFO Central). There is only a foreground layer, aparrently.

This reply was modified 36 days ago by MarkSimonson.
This reply was modified 36 days ago by MarkSimonson.

Reply To: Layers disappearing

frederik — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:59:43 +0000

Which version are you using for both apps? (RoboFont, Prepolator)

I quickly followed your steps and I cannot reproduce this issue. Can you give some more detailed steps to reproduce it?

As default new fonts in RoboFont already has a “background” layer.The UFO’s RoboFont is generating should be compatible with Prepolator cause they are valid UFO2 UFO’s. The layer data is stored in the glyph.lib with a custom RoboFont lib key.

Superpolator will ignore the layer data and will also not add the masters glyph.lib to new instances.

thanks

Reply To: Hide Inspector

frederik — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:46:11 +0000

The beta for 1.3 hides the inspector window when it’s already open. So one can close and open the inspector window with the same short cut.

Hide Inspector

Bas — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:20:39 +0000

Would be handy if cmd+I not only shows Inspector, but also hides it.

Additionally: very often I have Space Center full screen, but – when working on a single monitor – the Inspector remains on top. That’s annoying. Not sure what a good solution is for this problem…