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Re: [fontforge-users] How to ignore open contours
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From: Stewart G. <sm...@in...> - 2019-01-24 13:46:55
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Hi Bob, It sounds to me like what you're really trying to do is create a stroke font. These are a distinct type of font from outline fonts, which is what PostScript, TrueType and OpenType fonts are. My impression is that FontForge doesn't support stroke fonts, but someone else might correct me if I'm wrong. Moreover, you probably won't find much software that can use stroke fonts nowadays, so it's probably not a good idea to try creating them. While they've existed in Windows since its early days (at least since Windows 2.03), it seems most software pretends they don't exist. I don't know to what extent other OSs support such things. As such, I think drawing them in a vector graphics app and expanding the strokes per Gé's advice would be your best bet. Stewart. Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 11:57 AM From: "Gé van Gasteren" <gev...@gm...> To: "Discussion forum for fontforge users" <fon...@li...> Subject: Re: [fontforge-users] How to ignore open contours Bob, I think fonts having just strokes, not fills, will create big problems later on, if they are not impossible. But don’t despair, you can design your fonts using strokes in Illustrator (for example), then expand the strokes and import the result into Fontforge: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/custom-font-illustrator-fontforge On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 10:27, Bob Vandevliet <b.v...@ou...[mailto:b.v...@ou...]> wrote: Good morning, For a project I need a font without thickness, but just a line/curve. I read in the documentation that FontForge automatically draws al line between open endpoints. This is a big problem for my purpose. How can I configure FontForge to NOT automatically close open contours? Kind Regards, Bob Vandevliet_______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list fon...@li...[mailto:fon...@li...] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html_______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list fon...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users[https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users] http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
