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Convert path data to alternate fill-rule?

Asked by Taylor Hunt

I'm using Inkscape and Font Forge together to make webfonts. Due to differences in how CFF and SVG perform their overlapping fills, I find myself having to reverse-engineer a lot of existing path data to "point" the other direction so I can apply fill-rule="evenodd".

This is extremely tedious and error-prone, and I was hoping Inkscape can "reorder" path data to work with the opposite fill-rule somehow.

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Taylor,

as I'm not much into fonts, can you give a step by step of the things you need to do that you would like to sum up into a single step, and post a link to an example file (attachments do not work here)?

Regards,
 Maren

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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Taylor Hunt (tigt) said : 		#3

Here we are: http://codepen.io/tigt/pen/wgeqOZ?editors=1000

Ideally, I could select a shape, and convert it from the first example to the 3rd.

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Best Mc (mc...) said : 		#4

After you isolate (with path->break apart) the path segment you want to reverse, path->reverse makes it "point to the other direction". then ctrl+k (path->combine) can combine it back together.

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Taylor Hunt (tigt) said : 		#5

Excellent! It would be wonderful if I could use Inkscape's CLI to automate that somehow (auto-detection of what needs reversing would be the tricky part), but that's already a huge improvement. Thank you.

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Taylor Hunt (tigt) said : 		#6

Thanks Mc, that solved my question.