Re: [WikimediaMobile] SVG to font (WAS: The future of skins_

2014-09-04 Thread Monte Hurd
On Sep 3, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: The font-to-SVG workflow was an idea to try and make it possible for designers to use their font is the source workflow. Not quite. The point of the conversion scripts (which are done and seem to work pretty well)

Re: [WikimediaMobile] SVG to font (WAS: The future of skins_

2014-09-04 Thread Monte Hurd
On Sep 3, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: WikiFont (which generates font file output from SVG source code). tl:dr SVGs yay! The problem was WikiFont did not generate itself (magic?) from svgs. The svgs had to be fairly painstakingly imported into a font

Re: [WikimediaMobile] SVG to font (WAS: The future of skins_

2014-09-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 08/27/2014 05:51 PM, Monte Hurd wrote: I've finished the SVGs-to-font and font-to-SVGs scripts. I'll document and post these in the next couple days. Is this just a temporary solution since the SVGs for some fonts have been lost? If not, why do we need a font-SVG workflow? My

Re: [WikimediaMobile] SVG to font (WAS: The future of skins_

2014-09-03 Thread Trevor Parscal
It came out in a meeting about icons, that a major impetus of Wikifont was the workflow for designers being easier if all icons are sourced from a single font file, and not individual SVG files. The SVG-to-font workflow is helpful for the iOS app which uses the font (apparently the Android app