[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Dave Crossland]

Hi Yash

Awesome work today! Moving control points around is half the battle :D

My advice to you (and everyone at Sugar Labs) is to not worry too much
about what happened in the past, and focus on the future :) So I'm looking
forward to tomorrow's daily email :)

I hope you can also make another weekly round up blog post on Sunday to
wrap up week 4 :)

Cheers
Dave

On 17 June 2016 at 17:51, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today's Work:
> I was working on making a draggable object on a Gtk drawing area
> up till now I can move the object from one place to another on mouse click
> or on any other event
> My next task is to add the events for a mouse drag and then after the path
> after that is pretty straightforward, I plan to complete the basic editor
> this weekend :)
>
> @Dave I'm sorry about not following on the daily emails, I make sure to do
> it sincerely from now on
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:27 PM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Good progress this week, but PLEASE do keep up with the daily 3 line
>> email. I will note how many days you've worked and how many daily reports
>> that you agreed to send were made in your midterm evaluation :)
>>
>> The blog ☺ https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/ had a good
>> run of posts at the start, but last 2-3 weeks has been very dry. I would
>> like to see something like
>> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/week-1-work at the end
>> of each week going forwards, including one for today.
>>
>> I think the UI/UX is coming together nicely, and Eli and I can do user
>> testing with what you have, and iterate it.
>>
>> I think your main job for the next week is to make the core
>> new/load/save/import/export methods work. Once they are working well, then
>> move on to the core methods needed to edit a glyph: editing the points is
>> 1/2 of that, and editing the sidebearings is the other half. Probably
>> sidebearings is easier than points :)
>>
>> For editing points, there is
>>
>> 0. adding new points to make a new contour (a "pen tool")
>>
>> 1. repositioning existing points
>>
>> 2. adding new points to existing contours
>>
>> 3. removing points from a contour that 'breaks' an closed contour into an
>> open one
>>
>> 4. 'merging' points, where they are removed from a closed contour without
>> breaking it open
>>
>> Imagine you are using it for the first time: you need to make a new font,
>> add some glyphs, add some contours to those glyphs, move their points
>> around and set their sidebearings, save your work in a UFO, export your
>> font as a OTF, install the OTF in the system, and use it in another
>> activity.
>>
>> When you can do that, you'll have a v1.0 :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>>
>>


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Cheers
Dave
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