Comments on: Importing Inkscape in Fontforge

By: John LeMasney

John LeMasney — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:10:00 +0000

Inkscape 0.47 pre has a fontforge glyph preset. Choose File/new and from the dropdown, choose fontforge_glyph. Voila!

By: nitrofurano

nitrofurano — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:13:43 +0000

@rere: if you have each character in each svg file, i think you only can import one by one, in each character cell.

By: rere

rere — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:25:29 +0000

Is posible to import all glyps in fontforge from svg files?
I have 200 svg files but what I can import all?

By: Paulo Silva

Paulo Silva — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:47:54 +0000

Fontforge is a terrific tool can really replace Fontographer, for better!

The method i used to do is on Inkscape having a horizontal banner with some character gliphs (some dozens, usually all 96 characters from the ascii-7bit), a paper sized like 1000pixels by 25000 pixels, and having the baseline as a guide, proportional of what i will import from Fontforge

And later on Fontforge, i do cut/paste groups of glyphs for each character cell proximity, and later each glyph for each cell, and later all finetunes like spacings, kernings, etc.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:54:35 +0000

@render: please explain more

@Harrisson: Thanks

By: render

render — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:13:44 +0000

Is the image supposed to be 1000 x 1000 and then lined up on the horizontal guide?

By: Harrisson

Harrisson — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:59:16 +0000

Thanks Dave, great optimalisation! Your blog looks very interesting…

By: dave

dave — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:09:54 +0000

I’ve rewritten this recipe on my blog, at http://understandinglimited.com/2007/10/29/inscape2fontforge/

1. Open Inkscape
2. From the File menu, select Document Properties.
3. Set units to pixels (px) and document dimensions to 1000 x 1000, click OK
4. Set a horizontal guide at 200px
5. Draw a glyph – the hardest part!
6. Save the drawing as an SVG
7. Open FontForge
8. From the File menu, select Import, chose SVG, find your drawing, click OK

By: Understanding » Blog Archive » Drawing in Glyphs in Inkscape

Understanding » Blog Archive » Drawing in Glyphs in Inkscape — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:09:16 +0000

[...] Open Source Publishing pubished a very handy recipe for preparing Inkscape to be used to draw glyphs that are then imported into FontForge, which I have rewritten and improved a little: [...]

By: Pierre Huyghebaert

Pierre Huyghebaert — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:44:45 +0000

Aaah! As simple as in the proprietary world!