Thoughts on Glyphs font editor?

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  • Georg Seifert
    Georg Seifert Posts: 674
    A Typecon workshop would be great. I can’t be there but I could assist in preparing it.
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,436
    Thanks mekkablue. That's half the battle solved. It would also be useful to be able to copy fontwide vertical metric settings from one layer to another.
  • James Hultquist-Todd
    James Hultquist-Todd Posts: 417
    @GeorgS

    I decided to give it a go. Do I get a confirmation (serial number or link), now that I've paid for it through paypal?
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 1,993
    Thanks for sharing your scripts, Rainer.
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  • Eris Alar
    Eris Alar Posts: 454
    Dunwich Type maybe? ;-)
  • Georg Seifert
    Georg Seifert Posts: 674
    edited April 2012
    Is it possible to organize a workshop (it there some time and a room)? I will most certainly find someone how can give the workshop.
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 1,993
    If you want to run a Glyphs workshop you need to contact the SoTA board.
    http://www.typecon.com/contact
    Although it may be to late to work in something this year:
    http://www.typecon.com/archives/1102
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  • Jan Schmoeger
    Jan Schmoeger Posts: 280
    I am not any good on scripting and the more technical stuff, and I have been out of Fontlab so long now that I would have to re-learn much of it (cataract surgery, both eyes, last year), should I switch to Glyphs, you think?
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  • Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
    Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157
    edited April 2012
    @paragraph: I switched to Glyphs because a lot of the scripts I had written for Fontlab are not needed in Glyphs. And that's because the Fontlab problems that the scripts had addressed do not occur in Glyphs in the first place. I find that many solutions in Glyphs feel like ‘oh, that's how it should be implemented’. The way components and Multiple Masters are done saves you so much time.

    @JMontalbano: I teach type design to seventeen-year-olds and I use Glyphs for that. I'll be happy to help out if you have problems/questions. Georg offers semester licenses and student conditions.
  • Jan Schmoeger
    Jan Schmoeger Posts: 280
    Thanks, both of you. Just bought it, looks great!
  • Jan Schmoeger
    Jan Schmoeger Posts: 280
    James (Dunwich_Type), would it be useful posting a list here what other bits people use/need with Glyphs? For example, do I still need AFDK autohint and related scripts?
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 1,993
    What users do and don’t need is very dependent on their workflows. For example, most people I talk to have never used any part of the FDK beyond the autohinter, so if they move to Glyphs, they can just stop installing it.
  • Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
    Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157
    @paragraph:

    Python Scripts:
    https://github.com/mekkablue/Glyphs-Scripts (by me)
    https://github.com/schriftgestalt/Glyphs-Scripts (by Georg, includes a FL script that exports Glyphs file)

    Tim’s Remix Tools:
    http://remix-tools.com/glyphsapp
    (can't live without Harmonizer anymore, currently a free beta)

    Yanone’s Speedpunk:
    http://yanone.de/typedesign/code/speedpunk/
    Not released yet, so stay tuned. If you meet him in person, you can buy a beta CD-ROM.
  • Georg Seifert
    Georg Seifert Posts: 674
    @paragraph the adobe autohinter is already build in. So you do not need that anymore.
  • Georg Seifert
    Georg Seifert Posts: 674
    (by Georg, includes a FL script that exports Glyphs file)
    since two days ago, it also includes a script that read .glyphs file in FontLab. Please give it a try and file bug reports.

    It supports MultipleMaster, Kerning, Features, Hinting and tries to decompose nested component.
  • Jan Schmoeger
    Jan Schmoeger Posts: 280
    Thanks, this is fantastic stuff. Goodonya, guys.

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