Problems with .svg import

[melvin]

Hello,
If I import a .svg file from Adobe Illustartor to Type 3.2 the paths are kind of messed up. The lines between the anchorpoints are very crooked as you can see on the attached picture.

Its a very annoying problem and i really dont want to draw all me glyphs again.

Is there any solution?

[Allan Murray]

Can you please email me the .svg file above so I can do some checks ([e-mail])?

It may be a scaling/rounding issue do to the fact that fonts can only contain integer values for node positions.

Thanks

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As I thought (after looking at the svg) it is a scaling issue. The imported svg's are scaled depending on the page size of the original graphic.

In this particular example, the size of the 'a' is small compared to the page size - the the imported graphic is reduced in size, and rounding of the point positions is significant.

The answer is to make sure that the graphic utilizes most of the page. A modified version of your graphic, in which I simply enlarged the 'a' to fill the page did not have this issue.

In a future version of Type 3.2 there will probably be additional options for scaling of the input graphic..

[melvin]

You were right.
It really was a scaling issue. At first I imported the glyphs with 1/4 the size of the actual x-hight in Type3.2 and the problem occured. I dont know much about .svg files but there must be either a writing or reading issues with drawings that are too small.

Now if I scale the glyphs up in Illustartor and then import them to Type 3.2 everything seems to be fine.