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

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 23:28, JustFillBug wrote:
> 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.
Find/Replace will do that too.

replaceWithReference just calls Find/Replace which has a much wider set
of choices available.

> 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.
Yup.
> 
> And I want to do this in python. 
Ah. 
> Could you add a flag option to the find() to let user specify finding
Nope. I am swamped. But you may.