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Adds Export Proxy #150

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Add's Export Proxy plugin that is a tool that exports fonts in .ttf, .otf & variable .ttf using chain of these Google font tools glyphsLib, ufo2ft, fontmake, ufoLib2

Made for situations when .glyphs file contains many smart stuff that can't be baked from outside

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Do you think it's useful? Does it make sense? Is it a correct approach to this problem?

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Thanks for the addition! Have you tired the fontmake Export Plugin?

https://github.com/schriftgestalt/FontMakeExportPlugin

It’s not yet in the Plugin Manager as it’s still in development, as far as I can tell. Perhaps the two plugins would benefit from sharing ideas or maybe they are different enough to better keep them separated. If so, could you provide a short description of the difference?

Otherwise, I should find time at the end of this week to investigate the two plugins for similarities and differences.

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jansindl3r commented Aug 27, 2024

@florianpircher Thanks!

unfortunately I only browsed the PluginManager

The plugin you shared has better code, I am up for keeping that one instead. Having 2 similar would be confusing for the users.

Though it seems it's missing the feature which makes the difference. Mine bakes/decomposes smart stuff like outlines and corners. (unfortunately I wasn't able to use native export for a project with many smart things, it kept falling)

I would be happy to contribute with this to the plugin you shared

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I would be happy to contribute with this to the plugin you shared

Sounds great, so I will close this then.

(unfortunately I wasn't able to use native export for a project with many smart things, it kept falling)

If you can share the file with us, we can take a look what is causing the failure you are seeing. Either on the Glyphs Forum or via mail tosupport@.

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the fontMakeExport plugin is to help designer that are working on a project that needs to deliver fonts build with fontMake. Being able to build from Glyphs directly (instead of goring through the terminal and remember the command) helps with the testing.

But having the option to decompose smart stuff is probably useful. Maybe you can add your code and send a pull request.

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