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Possible robofab bug?
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My understanding is that TrueType and OpenType external contours should be clockwise; | |
internal contours should be counter-clockwise. | |
RGlyph.correctDirection(), however, seems to normalize contours in exactly the opposite manner. | |
This script reproduces the issue, drawing a simple square. | |
''' | |
import os | |
import robofab.world | |
font = robofab.world.NewFont(familyName='test', styleName='test') | |
font.info.ascender = 1000 | |
font.info.descender = 300 | |
font.info.unitsPerEm = 2024 | |
font.info.xHeight = 500 | |
font.info.capHeight = 1000 | |
glyph = font.newGlyph('A') | |
glyph.unicode = ord('A') | |
glyph.width = 1000 | |
# Draw a square. | |
glyphPen = glyph.getPen() | |
glyphPen.moveTo((0, 0,)) | |
glyphPen.lineTo((0, 1000,)) | |
glyphPen.lineTo((1000, 1000,)) | |
glyphPen.lineTo((1000, 0,)) | |
glyphPen.closePath() | |
# The key line | |
glyph.correctDirection() | |
glyph.update() | |
font.update() | |
dstFile = 'test.ufo' | |
font.save(dstFile) | |
font.close() |
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