Re: [Fontforge-users] Removing pathless points.

[Khaled H. <kha...@eg...>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 09:09:48AM +0000, vernon adams wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a script method (python or native forge) that could
> be used to remove all points that are not on a path?  I am using
> Fontforge alongside Robofont, and Fontforge opens a Robofont-generated
> UFO with 'anchor' points as 'real' points. I need a script to remove
> all these stray points  :-/
> Any ideas?

This should do the trick:

for glyph in font.glyphs():
    fore = glyph.foreground
    for i in range(len(fore)):
        if not fore[i].closed:
            fore[i] = fontforge.contour()
    glyph.foreground = fore

Regards,
 Khaled