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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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SVG Color Font not editable #162

Open mfru opened 8 months ago

mfru commented 8 months ago

Hi, thank you for creating Birdfont!

I was trying out the color font features, but when trying to edit the Gilbert Color font, I am not able to change paths and/or colors.

When editing the monochromatic glyph, everything is fine. image image

But when switching to SVG color, I see the original glyph and cannot edit its paths nor color. When clicking on the glyph with the "move control points" tool, nothing will happen. Also I cannot select any control points. image image

When I convert the SVG glyph to a COLR glyph, I can edit the COLR glyph. image image

Is this a bug or is this a case of me not understanding how to work with Birdfont yet?

Birdfont 5.8.0 (plus) Flatpak on Fedora 38

mfru commented 8 months ago

Also tested and confirmed with another font Abelone

johanmattssonm commented 8 months ago

Thank you for the report. I have not implemented an SVG editor, you can only remove and resize the SVG paths in Birdfont. You need to work with an external editor like Inkscape.

That said, this is something I do want to work on and hopefully add later this year.