Are Glyphs and Metrics Machine kerning compatible?

Glyphs
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Glyphs and Metrics Machine seem to work fine together. Is there any reason I cannot use both programs to edit kerning in the same UFO file?

2

They should work fine together.

What does not work? Can you give some details?

There is a option in the preferences about the export of kerning classes. If you work with Metrics machine, you should disable both checkboxes in “Import UFO from Fontlab”.

Does this help?

Georg

3

I apologize for taking so long to respond. Everything works fine from what I can tell. I was just asking to be sure that there aren’t known problems.

4

I have a problem with importing kerning generated by Metrics Machine to Glyphs.

I have a VFB and UFO source file with kerning stored only in the kern feature. The kerning assistance in FontLab shows zero kerning pairs. When I import these files into Glyphs, the kerning data is stored in the prefix. Glyphs also does not recognise the kerning in the kerning palette.

feature kern {
# Class Kerning Data Generated by MetricsMachine 4.0.4
# UFO: …
# Date: Tuesday February 21, 2012 19:16:54

The problem is that I cannot edit the kerning, and if I add new
pairs, the original kerning from Metrics Machine wouldn’t work in the exported file.

What is the correct way to export kerning from Metrics Machine?

5

Can you send me the UFO file? mekka at my username dot com

6

Glyphs can’t import the kern feature. But Metrics Machine can write a .ufo with kerning data. This can be imported just fine.

7

I solved this problem by importing the .afm file into the VBF source. Then I exported the VBF file to Glyphs and the kerning was there.

The .afm file was exported from Metrics Machine(by my collaborator).