[OpenFontLibrary] [Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] designing fonts within Inkscape]

[Jon Phillips]

This is exciting news all! Check it out!

Jon

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches at gmail.com>
> To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] designing fonts within Inkscape
> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:36:49 -0200
> 
> Now users can design a font within inkscape, save it and then open the
> SVG file in Fontforge in order to export a truetype font (or other
> system font formarts fontforge supports).
> This improves previous workflow of font design using Inkscape which
> involved creating one SVG for each glyph. Now user only needs to
> create a single SVG file containing an SVGFont.
> 
> Glyph kerning settings for the font can also be defined withing
> Inkscape itself with live preview. The kerning management still needs
> some improvements but is currently functional at least.
> 
> Improvements in the SVGFonts dialog:
> 
> * In Global Settings tab you can define the font family name. Other
> attributes should be added to this tab in the future.
> * Glyphs tab allows the user to:
> ** see a list (combobox) of glyphs available in the currently selected font.
> ** add/remove glyphs
> ** edit glyph name and unicode
> ** set the glyph curves based on a given path (selected from canvas).
> Same feature for the missing glyph.
> * Kerning tab allows user to:
> ** add new kerning pairs
> ** adjust kerning values of selected kerning pair
> ** live preview while adjusting the kerning values
> 
> Code refactoring:
> 
> * Inner classes DocumentProperties::SignalObserver and
> FilterEffectsDialog::SignalObserver were duplicated code and another
> instance would be needed in SVGFonts dialog. So, I moved it to
> Inkscape::XML::SignalObserver (in helper-observer.{cpp,h})
> * changed SPGlyph->glyph_name and SPGlyph->unicode from char* to Glib::ustring
> * added sp_remove_resource to the release method in sp-font.cpp
> * glyph curves used to be stored (in d attribute) and rendered
> upside-down. Now that bug is fixed.
> 
> Sorry about this huge commit. I got one week away from the Internet
> during a xmas travel. The lack of 'net connection made me work more
> intensely in Inkscape :-D
> 
> Felipe Sanches
> 
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