On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:17:08 +0100 ricardo lafuente <bollecs@...1994...> wrote:
ryrych@...400... wrote:
hello :)
Guys, can you tell me how to create font with Inkscape? I use SVN version but can't see any menus/option for them. Maybe SVGFonts hasn't implemented yet? I've created my first font (rather vector objects yet) and I'd like to covert it to SVGFont and finally to truetype.
How to deal with it?
Just playing around yesterday I loaded a multi-letter font made with Inkscape into the FontForge program itself, as opposed to the python library. When I asked it to export to TrueType it said there were various errors in the path of my font (I just scribbled it, so I'm sure there were), and when I told it to export anyway it (the FontForge program itself) crashed - not sure if it would have worked if I'd fixed the errors, but if it did work it handles all letters in one file (from Inkscape) and supports several output formats. FontForge is available as a package in Ubuntu.
Cheers -Terry
For truetype output, you could make your letters as separate SVG files, and use python (with the fontforge module) to create a TTF from them.
I'm attaching a *very* crude script/hack i made months ago to do that -- with fixed spacings and only for letters. It will need a blank .sfd font file -- Fontforge's format -- which will be filled with your vector files (i'm attaching it as well). Maybe you'll want to change some
Hope this is somehow useful. :r