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johanmattssonm / birdfont

A font editor for creating fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BIRDFONT format.
https://birdfont.org
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My SVG crashes BirdFont 4.10.2 #111

Closed edwinfinch closed 3 years ago

edwinfinch commented 3 years ago

Hi Johan,

Thanks again for your quick fix with my earlier issue.

This one is different. I'm now experiencing an app hang with BirdFont when importing a specific SVG for my project. I can't get BirdFont to respond, and I end up having to force quit it completely.

Here is the SVG file: https://io.lazarus.watch/_resources/img/other/birdfont/dots.svg

I understand this SVG is quite complex with all of its little dots. I'm wondering if there's a way to fix this issue on my end, or is there anything I can do to help you get it working with BirdFont?

I am running macOS Cantina Band (10.15.7) on a 2018 MacBook Pro.

Regards, Edwin

johanmattssonm commented 3 years ago

Many thanks for the report. You have created a path with many more points than any thing else I have seen (so far). I will look at it and hopefully find some way to optimize Birdfont for this case.

johanmattssonm commented 3 years ago

This file might make the editing slow even if I find some optimizations, mainly because the inside of the circle contains many small points.

johanmattssonm commented 3 years ago

I am working on it.

edwinfinch commented 3 years ago

For me, slow is alright. All I do is import my assets in SVG, resize them to a max height or width of 56pt, and centre them.

I don't do much other work, because it's not needed for my purposes. So as long as those work, that's good enough for me.

edwinfinch commented 3 years ago

Hi Johan,

My business partner (who is the one that creates the SVGs for me) created this simplified piece of the above SVG with less paths:

https://io.lazarus.watch/_resources/img/other/birdfont/dots-quarter.svg

I was able to get this SVG to import into BirdFont, after about 40s of waiting. BirdFont is a bit slow to modify it, but I was able to do what I needed with all four quarters.

Hope this helps you on your quest of optimising BirdFont.

johanmattssonm commented 3 years ago

Many thanks. I think it will work but it will take some time to implement.

johanmattssonm commented 3 years ago

I think I might have a solution. Do you want to test a beta?

edwinfinch commented 3 years ago

That's great! Sure, send it over :)

johanmattssonm commented 3 years ago

Good. I will send you an email.