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

[Yash Agarwal]

Today I plan to complete the Load/Import/Export/Save features to a 100%

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:25 AM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Yash
>
> On 20 June 2016 at 22:25, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday's Work Report,
>> for details see the blog post:
>> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/week-5-work
>> Short Version:
>> here are the gif's
>>
>>    - main_activty
>>    <https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/files/img/activity.gif>
>>    - bezier curve editing
>>    <https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/files/img/bezier.gif>
>>
>> This blog post is very exciting! You cracked bezier editing which is an
> awesome accomplishment - well done! :D
>
> A few days ago on 17 June I wrote:
>
> 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 :)
>>
>
> I'm happy that you've shown ambition with tacking the hard problem of
> editing the points, but I'm also anxious that the more boring but 'core'
> parts (new/load/save/import/export) are not 100%.... For each one, please
> could you note what remains to complete it, if anything? :)
>
>
> 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
>>
>
> Now you can edit 1 cubic Bezier spline, that suggests that (1) is nearly
> there :) After that, (2) (3) and (4) are probably worth doing before (0) as
> that one is the most complex of the 5.
>
> Perhaps the best primer on the 'pen tool' is the video made by John
> Warnock - one of the Adobe founders, who invented Adobe Illustrator 30
> years ago - that was included in the very first version of Adobe
> Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbjajnLZY0
>
> Also, you may have seen this already, but there are various ways of
> calculating Bezier splines, and some are much faster than others -
> http://incolumitas.com/2013/10/06/plotting-bezier-curves/  has sample
> Python code, which per http://incolumitas.com/pages/impressum/#impressum
> you can use freely.
>
>
>> 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 :)
>>
>
> However, I would like to request your daily email is sent at the end of
> each day, rather than in the morning the following day, so that you get a
> steady count; I'll count yesterday's post if you can post the daily email
> in 12-1 5 hours from now, this evening :) I also would like to request that
> you do follow the 3-point structure that you agreed to:
>
> On 16 May 2016 at 05:35, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am fine with the daily posting as suggested by Dave
>>
>>    1. what we did today
>>    2. what we'll do tomorrow
>>    3. any questions for the team
>>
>> What do you plan to do today, and do you have any questions? :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
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