Generic error if SVG file cannot be converted

[ha7ilm]

I wanted to convert a custom icon I've created in Inkscape, but I've got an error like this:

ERROR in ./~/css-loader!./~/fontgen-loader!./my.font.json
Module build failed: 
 @ ./my.font.json 4:14-118
 @ ./frontend.jsx

I did not understand what was the problem, because the error message did not include any further description (is it a problem with the config, the code or the files).

Later I figured out that the SVG used some Inkscape specific features. To fix that:

• I created an SVG document in Inkscape with a size of (768, 1024) px.
• converted every object to path,
• saved the SVG file and edited it in a text editor. The result was like one of the files over here: test/octicons/svg. Only a <path /> in an <svg></svg>.

After that, the font was successfully built.

[jeerbl]

So, what is the issue again?

[jeerbl]

Btw, I took over the project as this one was not being updated anymore.

New project is here.

Thx Jerome

[ha7ilm]

This is a very minor issue. It took me some time to find out that the build failed because the SVG was not the right format. An error like Module build failed: invalid SVG format or webfonts-generator failed would have helped.

Partially I've opened the issue to document the way to fix it if someone else would use Inkscape to draw the SVGs directly. I think I wouldn't have had this issue if I used e.g. FontForge.

Right now the project works great for me anyway, thank you for that!

[jeerbl]

Ok I see.

Though you have to know that this project is just a proxy between Webpack and the webfonts-generator project so I guess this kind of invalid format errors should be handled there.

Don't hesitate to open an issue there or make a pull request directly.

Cheers Jerome

[ha7ilm]

OK!