Import SVG with stroke width and stroke ends

Scripting
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Hi!
Im trying to write a script to import a sequence of SVGs into glyphs with the stroke widhts and stroke endings intact.
So far I managed to import SVG paths, but it is pretty much the same as using File/Import/Contours. The information about the stroke attributes is lost and they are interpreted as shapes.

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What I would like to achieve would be similar to when you copy and paste a path from e.g. Illustrator. Here the paths have strokes, but no stroke endings. Ideally the stroke endings would also be imported.

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Do you know how this could be done?

This is the code I have used so far:

import os
from Foundation import NSURL
thisFont = Glyphs.font

directory = "/SVG_test/svg/"

for fileName in os.listdir(directory):
	if fileName.endswith(".svg"):
		svgFilePath = directory+fileName
		#print(svgFilePath)
		svgFileUrl = NSURL.alloc().initFileURLWithPath_(svgFilePath)
		
		glyphName = fileName.replace(".svg","")
		#print(glyphName)
		
		activeLayer = thisFont.selectedFontMaster.id
		#print(activeLayer)
		layerOfGlyph = thisFont.glyphs[glyphName].layers[activeLayer]
		
		layerOfGlyph.importOutlinesFromURL_scale_error_(svgFileUrl, 1, None)

I hoped that importOutlinesFromURL_scale_error_() could maybe help me, but I couldn’t find out more about how it works in the docu …
I imagine that I’d need to parse the SVG to find out the stroke widths and attributes of each path, but I’m not sure if this is possible.

I also couldn’t find any info about stroke endings in the docu … Is there a way to apply them programmatically?

2

Can you try the latest cutting edge version? And if that doesn’t work, can you send me a sample file.

3

I’m always on the cutting edge version. :wink:

Actually, I think I found a solution for my problem without any coding required. The built in vector import correctly interprets stroke thickness and stroke ends/caps if they are included in the SVG as an attribute (style tags don’t work). To make sure that is the case, I just had to choose the correct export settings in Illustrator. :upside_down_face:

I was able to import all icons with correctly applied strokes in one go. :blush: