Illustrator FontForge

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Hi,I made my first font in Illustrator and now am in the process of getting it to work in FontForge so working with the letter A.I saved it as an SVG in Illustrator and then opened it in font forge, however in font forge, rather than seeing a single line per single line in Illustrator, I see the letter as an outline of the line seen in Illustrator i.e. if I make the font with a really thick stroke in Illustrator then, I see this translated into FontForge. Any ideas on how to avoid this problem? Is there some setting in Illustrator that I'm not clicking?Sorry it's a bit of a FontForge question as well.

Lokapoka · Accepted Answer

Is it already a compound path?Which fill rule did you apply?For a font it should be Non-Zero.Ah you guys found the problem. It was just the outline, tried filling it in and having a zero border and it now all works!Thanks very much! .Compound curves... had a look at your video Monika, good intro on the topic, wasn't aware of how vector graphics worked exactly. Still not proficient with this concept but at least I'm aware of it now, thanks for that.

Cari Jansen · Answer

Have you tried importing them as EPS instead? I've found in the past that worked OK (different font design application though, but it might not do any harm trying ;-) ).

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