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    • Way to check for TT/PS outline type in FontLab?

    Posts: 134
    in Technique and Theory
    Hi,

    my FontLab under Windows crashes (as in: dies) upon loading a glyph’s TTH program on a glyph that has PS outlines.
    But I can’t seem to find a way to query the outline type.

    Presence/absence of TT hints, number of off-curve points per segment, contour direction... None seem to be a reliable indicator. g.isContourClockwise() will work a bit, until the contour direction is accidentally wrong.
    Whatever is covered under the TRUETYPE-DATA section of the Unofficial FontLab/Python API Reference returns identical values for both types.

    Any ideas? Thank you.

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    • Posts: 134
      Found FontLab's mistake, although it's a bit hard to believe:
      It crashed on a line querying the existence of a glyph object in a variable that was None beforehand.
      This works: if self.sourcePSglyph != None:
      This doesn't: if self.sourcePSglyph:

      But the question above remains interesting.
    • Posts: 143
      It may indeed be a FL error. But those two tests are not the same in Python.

      See http://stackoverflow.com/a/28067
    • Posts: 243
      edited December 2013
      FYI, the same crash occurs if you check for the existence of data in the FL mask layer: 
      if g.naked().mask:   # BOOM!
if g.naked().mask != None:   # this works
      Matthew is correct about the difference between these two tests, but it does not explain why FL unexpectedly quits in this case.

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