Re: [fontforge-users] How to ignore open contours

[Gé v. G. <gev...@gm...>]

Alireza: Oh wow, no need for Illustrator then!
I didn’t even know Fontforge had this Expand Stroke built in :)

Bob: But maybe I didn’t understand what you want.
In my mind, a "font without thickness" as you wrote, will not show up on
the screen or in print.
Any visible line, even the thinnest one, has a certain width, so it can be
represented by a closed path.
And because you can define an EM space of many thousands of units, there’s
hardly a limit to how thin the font can be.
Hope that helps.

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 14:32, Alireza Alipour <ali...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi Bob
>
> I don't know you have used Expand Stroke or not. You can draw your open
> path and using Expand Stroke__ you can access it from Element in toolbar__
> convert it to a close path. Also I think it is better to search about this
> fact the do TrueType or OpenType support open paths?
>
> Link for Expand Stroke:
> https://fontforge.github.io/elementmenu.html#Expand
>
> Kind regards,
> Alireza Alipour
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:30 PM Gé van Gasteren <gev...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> 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...>
>> 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
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