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

[Yash Agarwal]

Today's Work
Import module is working for ttf files
Export module is working with fontmake
Activation/Deactivation module is done
I started adding making changes to the UI for "creating a new font" but
ended up adding a lot more around it, I'll make a blog post about it later
it still requires a little debugging so no gif today

what I plan to do next:
sort out the bugs in the UI and make a blog post about the new features
for importing UFO files Trufont asks for a link to the metainfo.plist file
which has an "application/x-plist" MIME type, so also going to use that

questions:
What all information is needed in the Create New Font Form?
this is what I currently have:
Family name, style name, version, trademark, author info, license, cap
height, x-height, ascender, descender, units per em
or should I shorten the list?

Similarly, what all info for creating a new glyph?

regards,
Yash Agarwal

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:05 AM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> On 21 June 2016 at 22:25, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Today's work:
> > load UFO, save UFO, import binary all are working fine except a few
> issues
> > with MIME types which are now Solved (MIME type? thread on sugar devel
> list)
> > but not added in yet
>
> Great work!
>
> > What I'll do next:
> > Add the MIME type solutions
>
> nice!
>
> > use fontmake to export binaries as ufo2ft doesn't convert any cubic
> bezier
> > to quadratic beziers which are used in binary formats
>
> Actually cubic beziers _are_ used in the binary format OpenType in its
> "CFF Flavour" - so conversion to TT is not needed.
>
> And not wanted either, I think, since C.F.F. stands for 'Compressed
> Font Format' and thus is inherently better for XO-1s with limited disk
> space.
>
> ufo2ft can make OpenType CFF binary fonts as well as OpenType TTF binary
> fonts.
>
> There is a convention that OpenType CFF binaries have a *.otf file
> extension; please use it.
>
> > make UI forms for creating a new font
>
> Nice
>
> > handle this issue
>
> That will be great to do this week :)
>
> > Questions:
> > what should be the path for saving the ufo/ttf files?
> my_activity_root/data?
>
> The UFO files are saved. The OTF files are exported.
>
> UFOs should be saved to the journal. I believe that you use the Sugar
> Toolkit API to save files to the journal.
>
> I recommend that OTFs should be exported _and_ activated at the same
> moment, and then the "Font Manager" part of the application can
> de-activate them if the user wants that.
>
> When a font is activated it is stored in ~/.fonts/ and then fc-cache
> is run on that directory to refresh it. It might be necessary for
> activities or even the whole sugar desktop to be restarted for them to
> make the newly activated font available for use (eg in the Write
> activity.)
>
> When a font is deactivated, it should be stored _somewhere_ but there
> is no standard location on libre desktops. Perhaps
> ~/.fonts-deactivated/ will be ok. I'm open to suggestions! :)
>
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