Remove Overlap - Quadratic Curves

typeler · March 22, 2019, 8:58pm

Hi there,
I have some glyphs that use overlapping quadratic curves. Exporting as TTF/OTF with the “Remove Overlap” option doesn’t remove the overlap (see below). Is this a bug or a limitation in working with quadratic curves? Or is it bad practice on my part to have overlapping quadratic curves?

stroke applied in Illustrator to my exported font. Outlined for clarity

Thanks!

mekkablue · March 23, 2019, 7:28am

Two things:

I believe it was @LucasFonts who told me that you actually can have overlaps in TT. Hadn’t known that either.
True that overlap removal with TT curves is only partially implemented at the moment.

typeler · March 25, 2019, 12:19pm

Thanks @mekkablue - any chance it’ll be implemented fully in the near future?

GeorgSeifert · March 25, 2019, 10:54pm

The current code is difficult to fix.

typeler · March 27, 2019, 8:53pm

This does not sound promising.

mekkablue · March 28, 2019, 8:50am

I would try round-tripping to PS curves.

typeler · April 15, 2019, 6:17pm

Lots of awesome updates lately! Any chance this fix will be one of them in the near future?