Python in FL5, Image and Trace.

Jeremy Dooley
Jeremy Dooley Posts: 68
in Type Design Software
I'm having difficulty with adding an image to the background layer. I can create the image no problem with g.Rasterize(imagexyz), but I don't see anything about adding it to the glyph again.

I'm doing some stuff with PIL, but I can't even get that far until I can add the image to the glyph to trace it.

Trace(imagexyz) does not work. It appears there is a bug with Trace.

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Any help is appreciated. Thank you,

Jdooley

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  • Jeremy Dooley
    Jeremy Dooley Posts: 68

    Here's the way:

    imagexyz.Trace(g)

  • Jeremy Dooley
    Jeremy Dooley Posts: 68
    Yeah, so this works, but the traced image gets put at (0,0)

    I thought about adding a pixel to fix the sidebearings, but glyphs with descenders get put in at 0,0 as well. Any ideas on how to fix this?

    Manually tracing a background image works fine and inserts the trace results exactly where they should go.

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