Thanks marty39. I figured out the problem. When I import the SVG, The path
is duplicated for some reason. Obviously when two paths are less than one
pixel away from each other there is not going to be much black. So, the
solution for me was to double click on one of the paths and press delete.
one. That was the only solution I have found.
On another note, you said you don't really know how to use fontforge... I
have heard this from many people. Are there no books on it? I have not been
able to find very much quality information on it... e.g. all my letters
appear monospace. And I can't find anything on it.
Post by marty39Looks as though you might have an open path, because if you only had paths
in the wrong direction you would see *something*. In the glyph view
(where it shows the outlines of the 'a') the "Element" menu will help.
In that menu, scroll down to "Find Problems." For this job, just go to the
"Paths" tab and check the items for open paths, intersecting paths and
outermost path clockwise, and click "OK." If you get an error message and
can't see the selected points, click on the top of the glyph window (to
make sure it's active) and then zoom in by hitting '+' and you should be
able to see where the problem is. Sometimes intersecting paths are crossing
when they come out of a corner node; that can be hard to find.
To make sure the paths are in the right direction, click on a point in a
path and in that same menu look down and you will see the path direction
check marked, and if it's wrong you can just click on the right direction.
If the path is open or intersecting, there's no clockwise or
counterclockwise, just an option to reverse direction, and then you have to
"Find Problems."
The blue header just means the glyph has been changed since you last saved
the .SFD file; the "cross in it" means the glyph has never been defined (or
it has been undefined by "Encoding / Detach and remove glyph"). The "main
page where you see all the letters" is called the "font view" as opposed to
the "glyph view" where you see the outlines of individual glyphs. They're
not called "letters" because some of them are diacritics or punctuation
marks, and they're not called "characters" because the same glyph could
represent different characters ('A', "Alpha" and Cyrillic 'A') and
sometimes there are alternate glyphs for the same character. Some of us can
get real fussy about terminology.
I can't say I know how to use Fontforge. I learned how to get results from
Fontforge by struggling with it. I hope you get to where you enjoy working
with it as I finally did.
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