Hello, I am a typedesigner from Mainland China.

[chinazhang]

Hello, I am a typedesigner from Mainland China.
Following Simplified Chinese fonts are designed by me. The font has completed 6763 characters.

http://www.douban.com/photos/photo/544306894/

While I was using the contracting lor function of 'Bold' of 'Transform' of AsiaFont Studio 4, there was a problem:

http://www.douban.com/photos/photo/544307011/#next_photo

some straight line becomes curves, and some parts are not reasonably transformed. May you kindly tackle my problem?

http://www.douban.com/photos/photo/544307201/#next_photo

although the function of 'to lines' of 'convert' could transform curves into straight lines, but have to do it one by one.... so are there any ways that could convert a batch of lines?

http://www.douban.com/photos/photo/544307365/#next_photo

[Ray Larabie]

I know a trick to get rid of those dead curves but only in Fontlab Studio. I don't knoe if these tools aire available in Asia Font Studio 4. It doesn't always work but it can save time getting rid of those "dead curves" in fonts with straight lines.

Use Transform, add nodes. Set it to 10 and check "convert segments to straight lines" Apply to all glyphs.

Optimize with "process normally" and "do not align" Apply the command 10 times on all glyphs.

Sometimes that works but you need to check for errors. I recommend selecting all glyphs and hitting Ctrl K & Ctrl M before starting. That will put a copy of the mask layer so you can see problems more easily.

[chinazhang]

I'm sorry that I do not have this option.... could you do that in Python? thanks!

[Ray Larabie]

I wish I knew a way to remove them automatically. I've been deleting them manually for 10 years. I posted this topic but the images no longer appears in the post but it describes the same problem.

http://forum.fontlab.com/fontlab-studio-problems/the-dead-curve-t7168.0.html;msg24188#msg24188

So, I think you'll have to do what I do: manually remove all those curves yourself. It might save time to convert to TrueType curves and use the eraser tool to delete control points.

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