Glyphs

Handbook

Administrator — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:40:06 +0000

This manual gives a overview over the functionality. Handbook.pdf.

VFB Quicklook

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:19:34 +0000

This is the long-missing thumbnail and preview generator for FontLab Studio files. Now the .vfb files are real citizens in MacOSX.

UFO Quicklook

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:13:19 +0000

The UFO file format has become more and more popular in font production. With the QuickLook plugin, you can preview your fonts in finder by clicking the spacebar.

Editing Outlines

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:48:30 +0000

Editing outlines and creating letterforms in Glyphs is very simple. Learn how by watching this tutorial.

Comparing Glyphs

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:16:13 +0000

Learn how to create and compare variations of the same glyph side to side.

Internal Structure & Debugging

Editor — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:11:36 +0000

To have a look at the internal structure and for debugging, it might be useful to have a look at the wrapper module itself.

You can find it in the Glyphs bundle at

Glyphs.app/Contents/Scripts/GlyphsApp.py

Adding Scripts

Editor — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:08:12 +0000

There are two ways to use scripts. You can use the internal macro panel [see below] or “install” them in the scripts folder and access them from the scripts menu.

You can find a list of already available scripts in Github. To access them, download and place them in the folder:

/Users/[your user folder]/Library/Application Support/Glyphs/Scripts

You can access this folder from within Glyphs by choosing Script > Open Script Folder. To reload the scripts menu, hold down the Option key while opening the Scripts Menu and click Reload Scripts.

Documentation

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:49:21 +0000

Core Reference 0.2

Documentation of the internal object structure.

Python API Documentation

Documentation of the Python wrapper. GlyphsApp module translates the most features to be accessible in a python like way.

Installing Robofab

To install Robofab, Download the latest version from robofab.org.
The file “RoboFab491M_plusDependencies.zip” (as of this writing. The version number might be higher.) contains four folders “DialogKit”, “FontTools”, “RoboFab” and “Vanilla”. Each contains a “Lib” folder with one subfolder. Copy this subfolder to: “/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/”.

Integrated Macro Panel

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:30:17 +0000

The second way to use scripts is through the Integrated Macro Panel.

This is only a very small example but shows the basics.
It gets the fist Master of the glyph “a”, prints all nodes and moves them around.

# two way to access Layers in a Glyph
# The first is with the FontMaster ID
FontMaster = Font.masters[0]
Layer = Font.glyphs["A"].layers[FontMaster.id]
# Or with the index of the layer:
Layer = Font.glyphs["A"].layers[0]
print Layer
for currPath in Layer.paths:
if currPath.closed:
print “closed Path”
for currNode in currPath.nodes:
# setting the coodinates for a node with a Point
Position = currNode.position
Position.x = Position.x + 10.5
Position.y = Position.y – 10.5
currNode.position = Position
# or with setting the x or y values directly.
currNode.x = currNode.x – 100

General

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:26:29 +0000