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So the problem here looks to be “Error exporting instance”. Can you export the font normally? (Has it been saved first?)

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Yep Glyphs can export it fine. As it’s a font in progress, there are incompatible masters in quite a lot of glyphs, but Glyphs just skips those when exporting.

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OK, that’s weird. Can you try this in the macro window?

import os
p = os.path.expanduser("~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs/Temp/")
for i in Glyphs.font.instances:
  exp = NSClassFromString("GSExportInstanceOperation").alloc().initWithFont_instance_format_(Glyphs.font, i,0)
  exp.setInstallFontURL_(NSURL.fileURLWithPath_(p))
  exp.setAutohint_(False)
  exp.setRemoveOverlap_(False)
  exp.setUseSubroutines_(False)
  exp.setUseProductionNames_(False)
  exp.setTempPath_(os.path.expanduser("~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs/Temp/"))
  exp.main()
  print(exp.finalFontFile())

If that works and GlyphSILE doesn’t, I’m not sure what’s going on. @GeorgSeifert? The ObjC code here is https://github.com/simoncozens/GlyphSILE/blob/89b538599cebaa4a7f474796165be645f8c84908/GlyphSILE/GlyphSILEWindow.m#L94-L112 (which I think you contributed.) I can’t work out why that might fail, unless there are strange things going on with the temp directories.

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Ah my mistake, sorry. Since the last export, I’d set one glyph to non-exporting but it was still named in an OT feature. Updating the feature fixed it. Glad to see the plugin is working now :slight_smile:

Maybe the SILE window could remember which instance and size was last used? It’s currently reverting to no selection.

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