Glyph Sizes in FontForge SVG Importing
Question
I created a set of svg glyphs for a font I am building, in Inkscape. They look fine in Inkscape, and fill the full canvas. But when I import them into FontForge, they appear tiny - around 1/10th of the size they should take up.
Can anyone explain why this is happening, and what I can do to fix it?
Solution
There are some bugs in the FontForge.This is a way to solve it.
OTHER TIPS
This happens because your artboard in inkscape has many more units than the font's cartesian grid space.
- Open Inkscape
- From the File menu, select Document Properties.
- Set units to pixels (px) and document dimensions to 1000 x 1000, click OK
- Set a horizontal guide at 200px
- Draw a glyph – the hardest part! :-)
- Save the drawing as an SVG
- Open FontForge
- From the File menu, select Import, chose SVG, find your drawing, click OK
Inkscape now has a template, 'FontForge Glyph' that should make this more convenient.
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