Re: [Fontforge-users] Problem with spaces

[Dave <da...@co...>]

Thanks Khaled! I'm trying to use this python code but it doesn't seem to
work:

glyph = font.createChar(32)
glyph.width = 200

However when it generates the fonts, there are no space characters. Am I
doing something wrong?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Khaled Hosny <kha...@eg...> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:37:02PM -0400, Dave wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to create a new font based on SVG files. I've got a python
> script
> > that goes through, creates the characters / imports the outlines
> properly.
> > However, I am having trouble with the space character (unicode 32). If I
> create
> > it through the GUI it shows up in the otf file properly. However if I
> export
> > the character from the GUI into an SVG or EPS file and try to include it
> in the
> > script, I get this error:
> >
> > I'm sorry this file is too complex for me to understand (or is
> erroneous, or is
> > empty)
>
> Check the generated SVG or EPS file may be it is empty as the error
> message says. Anyway, for space all you need is to set the glyph width
> since it contains no outlines, you don't need to import anything into
> it.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled
>



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