Detailed Feature and Task List

2016-05-24

By Yash Agarwal (GSoC Student)

A Glyph Editing interface together with text preview

Priority 1

• Load a .ufo file
• Save .ufo file
• Character Map
  • Display the font info button (i)
    • clicking on this opens the font info page
  • Make a grid dipslay that makes a required number of boxes and is scrollable
  • Make the Glyph Rendering class that shows the glyphs in these boxes
  • 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
    • Display the points and offcurve points
    • User can move around points
      • 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
  • Define the main info which will be in scope of this activity
  • Allow the user to edit this info

Priority 2

• Multi Glyph editing interface
• Basic Curve Offsetting- Glyph editing interface
• Caps Curve Offsetting- Glyph editing interface

Font Manager

Priority 1

• Convert .ttf to .ufo
• Convert .ufo to .ttf
• save .ttf file
• Show all the available fonts found in the system font directory
• Allow the user to Activate/Deactivate fonts
• General text string preview for all fonts
  • 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
    • Take and store the text string every time the textbox text is changed
    • Update the fontList view with the new string
• Allow the user to mark certain fonts as Favorites
  • Add attribute to font object stating favorite
  • Mark the star next to the font as COLORED
    • when the font_star is clicked
      • Add the font to the favorite list
      • Save the changes to the main file
  • Make a favorite/all switcher button
    • Figure out the UI/UX
    • when clicked this will be toggle the font filter in the fontList View
• Deactivate/Activate fonts
  • 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
    • Figure out the UI/UX
  • Make a deactivated/activated switcher button
    • Figure out the UI/UX
    • when clicked this will be toggle the font filter in the fontList View

Priority 2

• Allow to user to make ‘collections’ within the library
  • Add attribute to font object stating collection name
• Convert .ufo to .otf and viceversa
• save .otf file

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