I run for the moment macOS 10.15.7 and I have just purchased Glyphs Mini 2.1.4
I have some folders containing only SVG files. Out of each such folder I’d like to make with the help of Glyphs Mini a system-wide font, accessible in
Edit → Emoji & Symbols
in every application.
Many thanks.
(1) Is it possible to make also Character (picker) Sets using Glyphs Mini? (Black-and-White would be fine, at least for the time being.)
(2) I have dragged-and-dropped one SVG file into a new glyph, but, I guess, I have to learn the basics, how to symplify paths. I tried
Glyphs → Tidy up Paths
but is was not so useful. The file I started to work on, should have only circle segments and straight lines. Still, there are hundreds of intermediate points, suggesting a much more complicated SVG drawing.
Is it any way to symplify (or tidy up) an SVG file, say, into quadratic and straight lines only?
Glyphs Mini is a font editor. You make fonts with it.
A character set is not a font. It is just a list of characters, I believe the character picker lets you customize the sets displayed via its gearbox menu, at least to a certain extent.
Perhaps you mean, ‘Can the Character Viewer display a font other than the system font?’ Not in the main list, but it lists all installed fonts that have a glyph for that character in the ‘Font Variation’ section:
Outline simplification is not trivial and a lot of guesswork is involved. There are some plug-ins and scripts for (the full version of) Glyphs that can help you spot and/or fix specific outline problems.