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?
cheers, Wojtek
Yes, it would be great to have a tutorial in inkscape about this. Wojtek (cool name!) maybe you can spearhead writing down the steps to making a font which could be converted to a tutorial inside inkscape. Cool?
jon
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM, ryrych@...400... <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?
cheers, Wojtek
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Dnia 2009-03-04, o godz. 14:19:52 Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> napisał(a):
maybe you can spearhead writing down the steps to making a font which could be converted to a tutorial inside inkscape. Cool?
Sounds interesting but I need the info how to convert existing vector shapes to truetype using SVGFonts. I've read that it is possible but I can't find any appropriate options in Inkscape although I have fresh vesion (today's compilation).
Frankly speaking it was fanny to play with making font (vectors). I really felt power of Inkscape. :)
The font I created is a fix-sized.
Wojtek (cool name!)
Wojtek (Wojciech) is a old-Polish kind of Adalbert. There's an English version - Voyteh. :D
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?
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
SplineFontDB: 2.0 FontName: Test FullName: Test FamilyName: Untitled1 Weight: Medium Copyright: Created by Luther Blissett,,, with FontForge 2.0 (http://fontforge.sf.net) Comments: 2008-5-25: Created. Version: 001.000 ItalicAngle: 0 UnderlinePosition: -100 UnderlineWidth: 50 Ascent: 800 Descent: 200 NeedsXUIDChange: 1 XUID: [1021 536 721743660 7187122] OS2Version: 0 OS2_WeightWidthSlopeOnly: 0 OS2_UseTypoMetrics: 1 CreationTime: 1211735577 ModificationTime: 1211740151 OS2TypoAscent: 0 OS2TypoAOffset: 1 OS2TypoDescent: 0 OS2TypoDOffset: 1 OS2TypoLinegap: 0 OS2WinAscent: 0 OS2WinAOffset: 1 OS2WinDescent: 0 OS2WinDOffset: 1 HheadAscent: 0 HheadAOffset: 1 HheadDescent: 0 HheadDOffset: 1 OS2Vendor: 'PfEd' DEI: 0 Encoding: ISO8859-1 UnicodeInterp: none NameList: Adobe Glyph List DisplaySize: -36 AntiAlias: 1 FitToEm: 1 WinInfo: 0 30 11 BeginChars: 256 1 StartChar: space Encoding: 32 32 0 Width: 300 Flags: HW EndChar EndChars EndSplineFont
ricardo lafuente wrote:
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
doh, the script i sent before is missing an 'import fontforge' line at the beginning... if anyone found it useful do let me know, i'm really interested in python-fontforge for this kind of stuff but am lacking peer review :) :r
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
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