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[Xgridfit-users] looking for better xgridfit tutorials

[Paulo S. <nit...@gm...>]

I'm a Fontforge user from years, and never cared before about hinting.

Since i know about Xgridfit, i got curious about how to use it
efficiently, but most of the examples shown at
http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net seems very messy for a newbie
viewpoint.

I even don't know how fast and comfortably can we get the feedback
from the edits we do with Xgridfit - for example, are imagemagick
command-line terminal instructions needed in this process, like using
'convert -font typeface.ttf -pointsize 12 label:"Lorem ipsum dolor sit
amet" pic.png && eog pic.png' ?

My main concert would be how can i do a fast, accuraced and
comfortable work using Xgridfit, or even, how can we write a simple
step-by-step tutorial can help newbies on doing a productive work,
enough to helping both Fontforge and Xgridfit replacing tools like
Fontlab.

Years ago i started a Fontforge tutorial at
http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/fontforge/tutorial/ (still in
portuguese, but the i think translation from translate.google can be
understood), and i wanted to do the same about hinting, with Xgridfit.
Is it possible?

Thanks, and all comments about this thread are very welcome.
Paulo

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Re: [Xgridfit-users] looking for better xgridfit tutorials

[Peter B. <b....@gm...>]

Sorry to be a bit slow here: my day job has me very busy till about
mid-May, so can't do much with Xgridfit. However, when I can I'll look
over the tutorial pages with a view to clarifying workflow issues and
suggesting ways to get visual feedback. Xgridfit and FontForge can't
work together as the graphical hinter in FontLab works with other
parts of that program. I've been thinking in a very preliminary way
about the possibility of some FF/Python scripting that might make
something like that happen, but it's all quite visionary at the
moment.

PB

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Paulo Silva <nit...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm a Fontforge user from years, and never cared before about hinting.
>
> Since i know about Xgridfit, i got curious about how to use it
> efficiently, but most of the examples shown at
> http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net seems very messy for a newbie
> viewpoint.
>
> I even don't know how fast and comfortably can we get the feedback
> from the edits we do with Xgridfit - for example, are imagemagick
> command-line terminal instructions needed in this process, like using
> 'convert -font typeface.ttf -pointsize 12 label:"Lorem ipsum dolor sit
> amet" pic.png && eog pic.png' ?
>
> My main concert would be how can i do a fast, accuraced and
> comfortable work using Xgridfit, or even, how can we write a simple
> step-by-step tutorial can help newbies on doing a productive work,
> enough to helping both Fontforge and Xgridfit replacing tools like
> Fontlab.
>
> Years ago i started a Fontforge tutorial at
> http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/fontforge/tutorial/ (still in
> portuguese, but the i think translation from translate.google can be
> understood), and i wanted to do the same about hinting, with Xgridfit.
> Is it possible?
>
> Thanks, and all comments about this thread are very welcome.
> Paulo
>
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Re: [Xgridfit-users] looking for better xgridfit tutorials

[Paulo S. <nit...@gm...>]

You're welcome!
I have another suggestion about how great would both xgridfit and
fontforge projects being sinergically developed together

Anyway, Anton Koovit is helping me with some useful and encourageful
basic hinting experience on Xgridfit and Fontforge based on his
Fontlab experience, which i hope can be a precious information for
newbies like many of the Xgridfits like me

http://acgmail.blogspot.com/2010/04/hinting11.html
http://acgmail.blogspot.com/2010/04/hinting12.html

in my humble viewpoint, i think these blogposts are much more targeted
on helping newbies - of course i don't want to unregret thos few
xgridfit tutorials were made available from its official webpage,
since they have some very important information, but they are hugelly
forward away in an abissal learning curve level... :|

thanks,
Paulo

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On 4/27/10, Peter Baker <b....@gm...> wrote:
> Sorry to be a bit slow here: my day job has me very busy till about
> mid-May, so can't do much with Xgridfit. However, when I can I'll look
> over the tutorial pages with a view to clarifying workflow issues and
> suggesting ways to get visual feedback. Xgridfit and FontForge can't
> work together as the graphical hinter in FontLab works with other
> parts of that program. I've been thinking in a very preliminary way
> about the possibility of some FF/Python scripting that might make
> something like that happen, but it's all quite visionary at the
> moment.
>
> PB
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Paulo Silva <nit...@gm...> wrote:
>> I'm a Fontforge user from years, and never cared before about hinting.
>>
>> Since i know about Xgridfit, i got curious about how to use it
>> efficiently, but most of the examples shown at
>> http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net seems very messy for a newbie
>> viewpoint.
>>
>> I even don't know how fast and comfortably can we get the feedback
>> from the edits we do with Xgridfit - for example, are imagemagick
>> command-line terminal instructions needed in this process, like using
>> 'convert -font typeface.ttf -pointsize 12 label:"Lorem ipsum dolor sit
>> amet" pic.png && eog pic.png' ?
>>
>> My main concert would be how can i do a fast, accuraced and
>> comfortable work using Xgridfit, or even, how can we write a simple
>> step-by-step tutorial can help newbies on doing a productive work,
>> enough to helping both Fontforge and Xgridfit replacing tools like
>> Fontlab.
>>
>> Years ago i started a Fontforge tutorial at
>> http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/fontforge/tutorial/ (still in
>> portuguese, but the i think translation from translate.google can be
>> understood), and i wanted to do the same about hinting, with Xgridfit.
>> Is it possible?
>>
>> Thanks, and all comments about this thread are very welcome.
>> Paulo
>>
>> --
>> Don't give Microsoft the remote control. Don't use Windows 7.
>> <http://windows7sins.org>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xgridfit-users mailing list
>> Xgr...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xgridfit-users
>>
>


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