Font for ISWA 2010

[Bill Reese]

Is there a possibility to make fonts with layers where the white is on 
an upper layer (like an opacity mask)?

Bill


On 10/24/2012 11:10 AM, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
>
>>> The only problem: fontforge gets the svg
>>> fillings wrong.  I've been trying to fix that, I will report if I 
>>> succeed.
>>
>> Good luck.  Can you explain how it is getting the fillings wrong?
>
> Yes, take for example S23001.  Instead of I get this inside the font.  
> I checked the svg and there actually is a filling there.  Inkscape 
> shows it alright (white), but the filesystem preview shows a grey area 
> and fontforge, as you can see, shows a black filling.
>
> If I edit the svg file and get rid of the white fillings (see diff at 
> the bottom[1]) then it works more or less as expected, for some reason 
> the shape is a bit distorted, but still readable: .  Is there a reason 
> for those white fillings?  I mean, would it be ok to remove them all?
>
> Eduardo.
>
> [1] The unified diff for the working S23001 (I just removed two lines):
> --- s23001.svg.orig    2011-09-19 12:00:39.000000000 -0300
> +++ s23001.svg    2012-10-24 13:00:58.000000000 -0200
> @@ -12,11 +12,9 @@
>    <path id="path2818" d="m 7.5,0 -7,7 14,0 -7,-7 z" fill="#000000" />
>    <path id="path2831" d="M 4,7 6,7 6,14 4,14 4,7 z" fill="#000000" />
>    <path id="path2833" d="m 9,7 2,0 0,7 -2,0 0,-7 z" fill="#000000" />
> -  <path id="rect2821" d="M 6,7 6,14 9,14 9,7 6,7 z" fill="#ffffff" />
>    <path id="path2897" d="m 19.5,0 -7,7 14,0 -7,-7 z" fill="#000000" />
>    <path id="path2899" d="m 16,7 2,0 0,7 -2,0 0,-7 z" fill="#000000" />
>    <path id="path2901" d="m 21,7 2,0 0,7 -2,0 0,-7 z" fill="#000000" />
> -  <path id="path2903" d="m 18,7 0,7 3,0 0,-7 -3,0 z" fill="#ffffff" />
>    <path id="rect2926" d="M 0 16 L 0 18 L 27 18 L 27 16 L 0 16 z " 
> fill="#000000" />
>  </g>
>  </svg>
>

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