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Now deprecated, Glyphr Studio v1 served us well from 2010 to 2023.
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Space bar becomes almost non-existent when exporting the font #308

Closed umaerkamal closed 4 years ago

umaerkamal commented 4 years ago

Hi there! Capture

First of all, great job on creating such a useful tool to tweak already existing font. Coming to the issue I am facing. I edited a font called Londrina. All the edits went well and exported the font as otf. When I installed, the space bar becomes almost non-existent. Is there something I did wrong? How can I fix it? Please help me as soon as you can.

Regards

mattlag commented 4 years ago

Can you take a look at the space character? Usually it defaults to auto-calculate width = false, so you can set a specific width. But if you started from an existing font, maybe the space character was imported improperly! If you can, send me the file you tried to import.

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umaerkamal commented 4 years ago

Thank you so much for your prompt response. Here are the two files, original and edited. P.S what is the ideal emu value to for space?

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Can you take a look at the space character? Usually it defaults to auto-calculate width = false, so you can set a specific width. But if you started from an existing font, maybe the space character was imported improperly! If you can, send me the file you tried to import.

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mattlag commented 4 years ago

Hello! I'm going through issues, and noticed this thread is unresolved. I think the two attachments you talked about didn't come through from email to github comments. Could you email them to me directly? mail@glyphrstudio.com Thanks!

mattlag commented 4 years ago

Actually, I discovered the root cause of this issue, it's actually an Import OTF issue with opentype.js - you can read about it on the v1.13.11 release notes: http://help.glyphrstudio.com/overview_updates.html

Basically, imported fonts are not returning an Advance Width for any character. Glyphr Studio uses "Auto calculate glyph width" in these cases as a fallback... so most glyphs seem okay. The one glyph where Auto Calculate does not work is the Space character, which falls back to a width of 0.

When opentype.js fixes this bug, it will also be fixed in Glyphr Studio. Until then, widths will have to be manually set.