Re: [Fontforge-users] Does font.replaceWithReference() scale first?

[JustFillBug <moz...@ya...>]

On 2008-12-03, George Williams <gw...@si...> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 18:47, JustFillBug wrote:
>> Hi, 
>>     I want to know does the replaceWithReference() try to scale to the
>> targetting contour's bounding box? From my test, it seems not.
> It does not, nor is it intended to.
>
> If you want to do this use the Find / Replace dialog.
>

Find/Replace does not work for what I want.

I want to replace part of a glyph with another glyph without changing
its shape. This is basically what the replaceWithReference does.

The difference is that the part of the glyph might be a scaled up
version of the reference contour. Therefore the reference will have a
scale up transformation matrix.

And I want to do this in python. I suppose I can use Font.find() to find
the glyphs containing simliar contours and do replacing with reference
myself. But find() does not support scaled lookup either. find()
hardcoded the sv_reverse|sv_flips.

Could you add a flag option to the find() to let user specify finding
criteria like scale, rotation, flip. Event better if the return
containing iterator of (glyph, matchedContourID) instead of glyphs only.