{"id":340,"date":"2007-10-20T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:19:14","slug":"import-inkscape-in-fontforge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/tools\/import-inkscape-in-fontforge","title":{"rendered":"Importing Inkscape in Fontforge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a.png\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"a.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fontforge is an ideal font design program, as far we could test it out:<br \/>\nOpening mac fonts (on ppc here) is more direct, and drawing tools are really ok to take on. Soft seems more fluid than previous version and&#8230; it can easely import inkscape svgs!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere is a way to make correspond inkscape size of document and fontforge size of font. This means you don&#8217;t have to resize your imported svgs, they would pop up at the right place in FontForge when opened. Follow those steps:<\/p>\n<p>By default, fontforge glyph dimension box is 1000 x 1000 postscript units.<br \/>\nThe baseline line is set at 0pt.<br \/>\nascenders goes up to 800pt<br \/>\nand descender down to 200pt.<\/p>\n<p>In Inkscape, create a new document<br \/>\nIn <code>document properties<\/code>, set all your units in inkscape in pixels (px).<br \/>\nSet the document dimension to 1000px x 1000px<br \/>\nSet an horizontal guide at 200px<br \/>\nDraw your letter.<br \/>\nSave it on svg.<\/p>\n<p>Import it on fontforge, selecting SVG in the file import menu box.<br \/>\nDimensions an placement should be the same as the ones in the Inkscape document.<\/p>\n<p>Super!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fontforge is an ideal font design program, as far we could test it out: Opening mac fonts (on ppc here) is more direct, and drawing tools are really ok to take on. Soft seems more fluid than previous version and&#8230; it can easely import inkscape svgs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[33,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}