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The fixed Machine Tool fonts, complete with closing lines inserted by Inkscape.Disclaimer: By no means do I claim to be an expert on font design/modification/creation. Success! The font was now displaying correctly, or at least as correctly as it could in Inkscape, which doesn’t handle single line fonts very well. I closed and reopened Inkscape to reset the font cache, opening the SVG file I’d been testing the font in.
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Unicode Full or Latin1, but it didn’t seem to make any difference in Inkscape. I tried re-encoding (Encoding->Reencode->) first to eg.
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I saved the TTF file in a new location and then installed it in Windows again, choosing to override the previous version when prompted.
I then exported as TTF (File->Generate Fonts, then choosing “True Type” from the dropdown) – the validation complained, but I decided to forge ahead regardless. It worked! All the characters now had their correct identity above them in the glyph table. I selected all the characters and pasted the above script into File->Execute Script, choosing “FF” instead of “Python” from the radio buttons at the bottom. #designed to be run within an interactive fontforge session. #Reset the glyph names of all selected characters, overriding unicode and ligatures In short, this script replaces the glyph name with its current value, but sets the unicode and ligatures to match in the process.
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I dropped in the function I’d found in the Scripting Functions documentation to update the glyph name, and enabled the flag that would update the unicode value and the ligature string from that name. After a bit of digging through the documentation for any kind of example that just modified the current character set, I found a short sample that was intended to be used in an active Font Forge window and alter all selected glyphs. So I clicked “Set From Name”, and then when I went back to the main screen it had been updated, highlighted in blue so I knew its value had been changed.īut I didn’t want to do this individually for every single character, and the “Glyph Info” option was disabled when multiple glyphs were selected.Įnter the Font Forge scripting function. I could now see that the glyph name was correct, but the unicode value and char were not. When I enabled Encoding->Compact from the top menu to remove all characters that have no glyphs, I could see that the characters were in there, but they were showing up in the wrong part of the glyph table.Īt this point I right clicked on the glyph and chose “Glyph Info” (also available from the Element menu and by typing ctrl-i). I did notice that where there should have been the standard English alphanumeric characters, there was nothing. (Yes, they’re supposed to look like that.) The Font Forge glyph table, showing all characters in the font. I know nothing about fonts, but I was hoping it would have a “repair font” function or something.
I opened up Font Forge, an open source font editor (available for Windows/Mac/Linux) to take a look. The cause of this seems to be that the font file contains some formatting errors and Inkscape can’t read it properly (and thus, I suppose, gives up). I use them in the sketch tool for my Silhouette Curio. I encountered this recently with three of the otherwise very useful Machine Tools fonts, which are intended to be used as single line fonts. Sometimes Inkscape will display a font in its own default font – for me this is a sans-serif of some kind – instead of the font you want.
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