From: Alexey K. <ana...@ya...> - 2011-06-15 19:10:12
|
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:37:47 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > It's a question of workflows perhaps, That's true. When I wanted to draw a relatively complex thing like chess pieces I first tried to do that in Inkscape, but finally had to stick with FF :) > but how one can use software > that has no notion of object selection and still is a specialized > vector graphics editor is beyond my comprehension :) Frankly speaking, I hardly understand how a font editor can take an advantage from a possibility to group or select objects. First of all, normally you would have just one object type, i. e. a vector graphic (unless it is a bitmap font or a Type 3 font), while in a general purpose editor there are also text objects, bitmap graphics etc. Moreover, a typical glyph normally has no more than 10 paths (unless in a pictorial font), so there is no problem to handle them individually. Second, suppose you have grouped a bunch of contours into an object. Now, what you would do with them? Operations like scaling or skewing seem most obvious choices, but note that in font design they are rarely applied to something more complex than a simple rectangle or ellipse. Or, if you apply such an operation to a relatively complex path, you should be prepared to do a *lot* of manual work after that, checking points and curves one-by-one. I don't think object selection would be very helpful here. > Last time I tried > doing boolean ops on paths and moving away bits I was nearly in > f*cking tears. May be I would understand you better if you explain which exactly bits you wanted to move away... -- Regards, Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru> Moscow State University Historical Faculty |