Detailed Feature and Task List Week 5

2016-06-28

By Yash Agarwal (GSoC Student)

Font Manager

• [ ] Convert .ttf to .ufo
  • [x] Load a ttf file if file path is hardcoded
  • [x] Load a ttf using the Object Chooser Dialog
  • [ ] Load a ttf using font description from Gtk Pango Context
• [ ] Convert .ufo to .ttf using fontmake
  • [x] test this outside sugar
  • [ ] working inside sugar
• [ ] export .ttf file
  • requires conversion of .ufo to .ttf
  • [ ] save the file as a user given path
• [x] Show all the available fonts found in the system font directory
• [ ] Allow the user to Activate/Deactivate fonts
  • [x] Build Activate/Deactivate/Lock buttons
  • [x] enable state change of click
  • [x] show the buttons only if the font is selected in the font manager
  • [ ] update the installed fonts list after the activation or deactivation of a font (issue)
  • [x] Add attribute to font object stating Deactivated or Activated
  • [ ] Write provisions that a font cannot be Deactivated and Favorite simultanously
  • [ ] Mark the font as DISABLED
• [x] General text string preview for all fonts
  • [x] Add a text box in the top center where the user can write a text and all the fonts will render that particular string –No button click needed
    • [x] Take and store the text string every time the textbox text is changed
    • [x] Update the fontList view with the new string
• [x] Allow the user to mark certain fonts as Favorites
  • [x] Add attribute to font object stating favorite
  • [x] Mark the star next to the font as COLORED
    • [x] when the font_star is clicked
      • [x] Add the font to the favorite list
      • [x] Save the changes to the main file
  • [ ] Make a favorite/all switcher button
    • [x] Figure out the UI/UX
    • [ ] when clicked this will be toggle the font filter in the fontList View
• [ ] Allow to user to make ‘collections’ within the library
  • [ ] Add attribute to font object stating collection name
• [ ] Convert .ufo to .otf and viceversa
  • done when the .ttf version is done
• [ ] save .otf file
  • done when the .ttf version is done

A Glyph Editing interface together with text preview

• [ ] Load a .ufo file
  • [x] can do so if the ufo file path is hardcoded
  • [ ] can do so if the ufo file path is choosen by the Object Chooser Dialog
• [ ] Save .ufo file
  • [x] plainly save the .ufo file at a hardcoded position
  • [ ] exporting a journal entry with a file_path to the saved ufo
• [x] Character Map
  • [x] Display the font info button (i)
    • [x] clicking on this opens the font info page
  • [x] Make a grid dipslay that makes a required number of boxes and is scrollable
  • [x] Make the Glyph Rendering class that shows the glyphs in these boxes
  • [x] if the glyphs are clicked open the glyph editing interface
  • [ ] add glyph button
• [ ] Basic Glyph editing interface
  • [ ] Make a drawing canvas on which the Glyph will be displayed as an outline
    • [x] Display the points and offcurve points
    • [x] User can move around points
      • [x] How can the user move around small circles ?
    • [ ] The offcurve points for a curve with the smooth set as yes will stay collinear
• [ ] Font Info Page
  • [x] Define the main info which will be in scope of this activity
  • [ ] Allow the user to edit this info
• [ ] Multi Glyph editing interface
• [ ] Basic Curve Offsetting- Glyph editing interface
• [ ] Caps Curve Offsetting- Glyph editing interface

A Testing interface for the Font Manager

• [ ] A separate more functional testing screen will be made apart from the live preview box.
• [ ] A textbox in which the text is rendered using the font, to get visual feedback.
• [ ] Provide predefined text templates eg. “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” and
• [ ] Export image button, to save an image of the rendered textbox