Hello, is any script or function to select a shape (could be a serif or any shape that is being used a lot) and replace it by another all around the font? thanks for the help
You mean path that is repeated/duplicated? I’m working on something. But it will take a bit more time.
If you work from the start with corner and cap components, they are easy to replace, but I suppose you have a project with many existing outlines…?
You are right, I have many dots that should be stars. Thousand of them.
Can you post a screenshot? Are all paths dots that should be stars? Would this method work for you: measure all path bounding boxes, and insert a star component in the right scale?
to help, there is a find outline/replace outline option in fontlab that is not actually replacing fine.
Ale, can you send me the file, so I can have a look?
replacing the shape with a component might be even more elegant
making further changes easy as pie
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I had a look at your file, and all paths have the same shape. I just wrote a script for that in mekkablue scripts > Components > Replace all Paths with Component. It should be pretty self-explanatory.
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Great but
I created the star as a new glyph called star, then I do what you mention and the ending result is…
whats wrong?
There is a glyph called ‘star’ but it has no outlines.
Fixing this: Copy one of the star outlines into the glyph star, move it over the origin point, that should fix it.
Starting anew: Go into your glyph with the star outlines, select a star by double clicking, right click and choose Component from Selection, call it _star. Then run the script.
Also, I just found a bug in the script that may have created this situation. Let me upload the new version. Update: fixed. Please get the new version and try again,
you both are genious, thanks!
Ale, conectate con Guido Ferreyra. El desarrolló un script para Sole Fontana que hace justamente eso.
This would be mega helpful, is it me or is this not in the mekkablue scripts anymore?
@mekkablue — Perhaps a script for G2 that was too difficult to update for G3?
It’s too long ago, I don’t remember. But you have git, you can checkout the repo as of end of 2018.
You can search/replace outlines directly. Select the shape (even parts of a shape should work) and got to Edit > Find > Use selection for Find. Then hit Cmd+g to get ot the congruent shape (in the same layer or in other glyphs).
I just saw that you need to start with a glyph early in the file as it doesn’t jump to the from the end to the beginning.
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@bojjoe The script was dropped July, 2019.
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