DoTheGeek on 17/8/2013 at 04:34
Hi TTLG it's DoTheGeek long time. I have come here to ask a favor of anyone who would be kind enough to fulfill it. I like designing typefaces. I have 4-5 complete alphabets as SVG files (each character is a separate file.) They've been sitting around rotting for months. I haven't been able to bring myself to turn them into font files because... well I use Linux, and making fonts on Linux is akin to stabbing yourself in the liver repeatedly while walking barefoot on dry ice and watching The View. The only option for conversion and font file creation, aside from coding it by hand, is FontForge, and that program is a bull's filthy anus. The simplest and most obvious conveniences are missing. Things that should be automated aren't. There is no bulk import feature. Were there such, it would be as easy as defining a naming scheme and pressing go. I imagine coding such a feature would be a trivial matter. Anyway you get the picture, here's my request: would anyone with the means be so kind as to have me send my SVG files to them, and turn them into font files using whatever program(s) you use? It would save me hours of work that should be minutes of work. Maybe someone on Windows or Mac has a program that doesn't blow platypus nuts and is capable of doing this in a rather streamlined way? Much obliged.
Queue on 17/8/2013 at 04:46
Last time you were here, I thought you were saying how all the ignorant scum around these parts weren't worthy of your spit--something along the lines of you kicking ass and exposing the lame.
Maybe you could try whittling out some woodcuts to make your fonts.
DoTheGeek on 17/8/2013 at 04:56
Quote Posted by Queue
Last time you were here, I thought you were saying how all the ignorant scum around these parts weren't worthy of your spit--something along the lines of you kicking ass and exposing the lame.
Yeah not sure what that has to do with fonts could I ask you to try to stay on topic please?
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Maybe you could try whittling out some woodcuts to make your fonts.
LEMME GET RIGHT ON THAT YOU COMEDIAN YOU.
Fafhrd on 17/8/2013 at 05:11
Have you tried using Inkscape to export an SVG Font and then dumping that into FontForge to convert it to an actual font type? I'd give it a shot, but Inkscape on Windows has stability issues when building SVG fonts.
DoTheGeek on 17/8/2013 at 05:30
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Have you tried using Inkscape to export an SVG Font and then dumping that into FontForge to convert it to an actual font type? I'd give it a shot, but Inkscape on Windows has stability issues when building SVG fonts.
Right, this is what I normally do to create a font. And maybe I'm being a complainer, but the process is as unintuitive as it gets. FontForge is... I'm gonna say it... a shitty program. I wish it were a matter of just "dumping" it into FontForge and converting. But have you tried using that program? It's a royal pain in the ass. Why can't I define a simple naming scheme and have the program import the entire alphabet at once? Instead I have to import each individually--and even that isn't as simple as it sounds. There are 5-6 steps involved in each import where the process could easily be compacted into 2-3.
I'm
assuming the top-of-the-line programs for Windows/Mac don't suffer these issues...
Fafhrd on 17/8/2013 at 08:34
Are you actually using the SVG Font Editor in Inkscape, or are you just generating individual SVGs for each character? Because the Font Editor creates an SVG file that contains all the assigned characters, and FontForge does just automatically open it up with all the characters in place, and then you can export it to a TTF or whatever. (
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B27JYeTpuKu8VmxTZS1NOUM1V3M/edit?usp=sharing) Here's one I threw together just now in LITERALLY 90 seconds. It's only A and B, and there's no kerning (because Inkscape crashes when I start doing kerning), but I did just dump it into FontForge and export.
june gloom on 17/8/2013 at 10:52
Quote Posted by DoTheGeek
Yeah not sure what that has to do with fonts could I ask you to try to stay on topic please?
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http://i.imgur.com/8zf8llZ.pngDoTheGeek on 19/8/2013 at 08:36
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Are you actually using the SVG Font Editor in Inkscape, or are you just generating individual SVGs for each character? Because the Font Editor creates an SVG file that contains all the assigned characters, and FontForge does just automatically open it up with all the characters in place, and then you can export it to a TTF or whatever. (
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B27JYeTpuKu8VmxTZS1NOUM1V3M/edit?usp=sharing) Here's one I threw together just now in LITERALLY 90 seconds. It's only A and B, and there's no kerning (because Inkscape crashes when I start doing kerning), but I did just dump it into FontForge and export.
I hadn't the slightest idea. Thank you!
Queue on 20/8/2013 at 02:27
So is it still a shitty program, or were you just inept?
Fafhrd on 20/8/2013 at 06:11
FontForge is a shitty program. Not user friendly in the slightest. But he was also apparently inept with Inkscape. Which is not that bad a program at all, as free alternatives to Adobe Illustrator go.
