2008/12/28 Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...>:
Now users can design a font within inkscape, save it and then open the SVG file in Fontforge in order to export a truetype font (or other system font formarts fontforge supports).
This improves previous workflow of font design using Inkscape which involved creating one SVG for each glyph. Now user only needs to create a single SVG file containing an SVGFont.
Okay, that's interesting, and suggests a big dirty hack to get SVG User fonts "working" in Inkscape :-)
Could a python script use Inkscape and FontForge's python scripting features (or as a pyFF script called as an Inkscape plugin, perhaps) to:
1. save the current Inkscape document as name.svg 2. close Inkscape 3. open name.svg with pyFontForge 4. generate a TrueType font as name.ttf 5. copy name.ttf to ~/.fonts 6. run "fc-cache -f" 7. open name.svg with Inkscape
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