Re: [Fontforge-users] Glyph IDs in FontForge?

[Vinay S. <vin...@go...>]

Thanks for the script, this is very helpful! I've attached a version which
will work with earlier versions of Python (the one you sent requires Python
3.1) for anyone interested.

Unfortunately this only helps if the glyph is mapped in Unicode! I'm unable
to reach unmapped glyphs in FontForge. Is this something that FontForge has
the capability to do?

An example font where I am having these problems is posted here:
https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/anjalioldlipi-font
Glyph ID 400 is unreachable from CMaps.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Just Fill Bugs <moz...@ya...>wrote:

> On 08/12/2011 09:08 AM, Barry Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Vinay Shah<vin...@go...>  skribis:
>>
>>> Thanks for the response, Barry! However, I'm not sure that I understand
>>> what
>>> you are saying. I am (almost) completely new to using FontForge and I
>>> can't
>>> seem to find anything in the GUI where I can enter glyph.originalgid. Are
>>> you talking about looking up the glyph ids programatically? If so, this
>>> isn't really what I am looking for (unless that programmatic lookup can
>>> somehow be translated into being able to see the glyph outline in the
>>> FontForge editor GUI.)
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I thought you were talking about Python scripting. I don’t know
>> the answer to the question about the GUI.
>>
>>
> The gid is only valid in a font file, because it will be re-assigned when
> generating a font, skipping empty glyphs. Therefore, there is a
> glyph.originalgid to indicate the gid in the original font file.
>
> Anyway, there is no way to goto a glyph in python, so here is a script to
> show glyph name and unicode of the original gid. Then you can use view->goto
> with gid. Put it in ~/.Fontforge/python/ and Look up it under the Tool menu.
>
>
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