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Beginners' Questions Creating Font from a pixel file
  1. #1
    plakarh plakarh @plakarh

    Hello,

    I wanted to creat a font of an imaginary civilisation.

    Here what I've done :

    1- I drag & drop a pixel image, I transformed it in a vectorial image.

    2- I created a new font

    3- I use my selection to create glyphes.

    It worked twice, and it didn't work when there is a point or an accent. After, it didn't work at all. I select one stroke, I click on letter C, and creat stroke from the selection, and it didn't do anything. I'm lost. 

    I followed this tutorial http://write.flossmanuals.net/start-with-inkscape/creating-fonts/ and this one https://fr.flossmanuals.net/fontes-libres/svg-fonts-dans-inkscape/

    Somebody know how to creat a glyph with more than one stroke ?

    I let some picture and my SVG file.

    Goodbye !

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  2. #2
    Aero Aero @Aero◻️

    For one path only that doesn't work
    1. Select path
    2. Path - Union

    For more than one path that doesn't work
    1. Select all paths
    2. Path - Combine
    3. Path - Union

  3. #3
    plakarh plakarh @plakarh

    Thanks a lot ! It worked ! :)

  4. #4
    plakarh plakarh @plakarh

    Hello again !

    I tried to do "kerning" after. It worked once. The second time, I had a bug when I click on the tab to do it (it freezed, a blank window is opened, and inkscape is closed) and I still have it.

    Do you have an idea to solve that ?

    Goodbye!

     

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  5. #5
    Aero Aero @Aero◻️

    It seems kerning doesn't work in Inkscape, maybe someone else knows more about it? I found some info here.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/706506
    https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/109003

    Maybe something like this would work?
    http://www.glyphrstudio.com
    https://glyphrstudio.com/tutorial/
     

  6. #6
    brynn brynn @brynn

    I just came across this tutorial for making SVG fonts:  http://myscrappinginspiration.blogspot.com/2015/01/extension-to-simplify-font-creating.html

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