On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Aaron Spike wrote:
Denis wrote:
I've been using Inkscape to design a font. I've used it in a few designs through the old manual-copy-and-arrange mode, but I'd like to convert it to a TTF so that it can be used normally in text.
I am aware that Inkscape can't do this, but I see that FontForge can import SVGs. I've tried it and the SVG import seems to work well.
My question is: does anyone know of an easy way to export all the glyphs from my SVG file into separate SVGs? I suppose it shouldn't be too hard to do with a Python script, but I don't think I have the skill to do it myself.
As a marginal note, is anyone doing fontwork with Inkscape? Has anyone tips or experiences to share?
I'm a little late for work now, but I would love to help. It is pretty simple to write a python script that will place all the objects fitting a certain xpath expression into separate svgs. And perhaps we can make use of Ted's latest changes (they allow us to call verbs from the command line) to resize the document to fit each glyph.
If were to adjust your working habits and you put each character/glyph on a seperate layer or group then a generic script which exported each layer or group to a seperate file could be useful to many people.
Just a thought