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

[Yash Agarwal]

here is a gif of what I have
https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/blob/gh-pages/files/img/moving-point2.gif


On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 9:30 AM Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:

> [image: moving-point.gif]Today's Work Report
> I am still yet to get the Drag feature working
> I was able to map the movement with the pointer movement but am not able
> integrate the Pressed| Motion | Released events properly
> I found Fototoon a sugar activity that has this feature and am currently
> going through it
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> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 3:34 AM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>>
>
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