Help, not getting any output. #159
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No sweat, happy to help. Can you provide:
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FontCustom: fontcustom-1.3.0.beta3 config file: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Project InfoDefaults shown. Learn more about these options by running
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Any ideas of where to start to fix the problem would be greatly appreciated. Trying to surprise my fiance with a wedding website! Thanks |
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Congrats! Might be the best use of Font Custom I've heard to date. First problem is your YAML syntax: #input: # as a hash
vectors: vectorsShould be: input: # as a hash
vectors: vectorsDitto for the output hash / string. If you want to generate fonts into the current directory, you'll need output:
fonts: .not Second thing is that your SVGs are actually in the working directory, which means Fontcustom will look for them in Final thing is that putting input and output into the same directory will cause problems on your second compile, when the generated SVG font is read in as a separate vector. Hope that helps, let me know if that gets you back on track. |
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Ok, still having some trouble. Here's my config file: \# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\# Project Info
\# Defaults shown. Learn more about these options by running
\# `fontcustom help` or visiting <http://fontcustom.com>.
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
font_name: WeddingIcons
\#css_selector: .icon-{{glyph}}
\#preprocessor_path: ""
\#autowidth: false
\#no_hash: false
\#force: false
\#debug: false
\#quiet: false
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\# Input Paths
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\#input: assets/fonts/fontcustom/source \# as a string
\# OR
input:
vectors: vectors
\# templates: app/assets/fonts/fontcustom/templates
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\# Output Paths
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\#output: assets/fonts/fontcustom \# as a string
\# OR
output:
fonts: .
\# css: app/assets/stylesheets
\# preview: app/views/styleguide
\# my-custom-template.yml: config
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\# Templates
\# Included in Font Custom: preview, css, scss, scss-rails
\# Custom templates should be saved in the INPUT[:templates] directory and
\# referenced by their baserame.
\# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \#
\#templates:
- scss
- preview
- css
\# - my-custom-template.ymlHere's my new folder structure: So i enter: fontcustom compile /Desktop/Wedding/WeddingIcons/vectors and this is what I get: I don't get any new files or anything. Thanks for the help! |
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Hmm. Are you running the command from /Desktop/Wedding/WeddingIcons? The latest version of Font Custom needs to be run from the directory where fontcustom.yml lives. Also, are you on ruby 1.9.2+? |
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Still not working. ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p353 (2013-11-22 revision 43784) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] yes, i think i'm running the command from the WeddingIcons folder, how can i know for sure? The response I am getting now is: Thanks |
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The Seems like something else is wrong in your fontcustom.yml. From your previous paste, looks like you need to uncomment |
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Changed that and still no luck, now the message i receive is: status Loading configuration file at |
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just a thought are you able to send me a working foncustom.yml I can just cut and past? |
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Have you tried it with |
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I didn't and now when i'm running it it only says: this is no matter what directory I try to compile, even if i type the words wrong to a non-existant file. What am I missing? |
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Hi Again, Still no luck, so I thought I'd try again, from the beginning. So here is everything I do, maybe you can help me figure out where I've gone wrong.
font_name: WeddingIcons
input:
vectors: Vectors
output:
fonts: Fonts
templates: [ scss, preview, my-custom-template.yml ]
So that's what I do, and all I get is: "status Loading configuration file at 'fontcustom.yml'" but no folders or files are created. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please Please! Thanks |
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Hm... there's nothing that sticks out here. Try installing the latest beta (4), which should have better error messages. |
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Hi, Thanks again for all your help with this. I've updated to the newest version of fontcustom and have really taken things back to basic and am trying to convert just one svg file. I seem to have made some progress because ow when I run: A new 'fonts' folder is created (it is empty) and I get an error: When I re-run with --debug at the end this is what I get: I poked around a bit on the forums and see that maybe it's a problem with my *svg file. How can I know? I can I ensure that my vectors are basic and not complex? Any help would be great! Still hoping to sort this out. Thanks... |
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Ahhh, that gives me a clue. I've baked the fix into the latest version — |
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Ok, some progress. I installed the latest version and tried again. This time some folders and such were created as per the config file, but they're still all empty. Again when I run the compile it says I should run with --debug. When I do, here is the output: So is there still hope? Can you still help? Thanks for all your effort! |
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Looks like I didn't completely fix the python bug. I'll try to squeeze in a patch ASAP. |
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Screw it — I went ahead and did it. Let me know if 1.3.1 does the trick! |
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Thanks for looking at this so quickly and so often, and trying to push that fix through last night. Still seem to have the same problem. Here is what I get when I run I know with your continued help we can get this sorted out. |
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Wow, you've hit a really unfortunately number of edge cases. This particular one is in fontforge, the underlying software behind Font Custom. It sounds like there might be one or more offending SVGs (too big, too many layers, etc.). A couple options:
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OK, finally some progress! I updated / upgraded as you suggested. I am now trying to just use one icon (test.svg) in a folder, and success a bunch of files are made. However, the icon seems to be blank rather then the icon I've drawn. I don't get any errors or anything in terminal and it seems like all the files/folders are created, but when I try to open the fontcustom-preview.html each of the vectors (progressing in size) is just blank and it looks like the text says "f1ob" (or something like that). Any idea what my problem is now? I feel like we're getting so close. I can't thank you enough! Thanks. |
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Strange. Can you post a zip with the SVGs and the generated files? Also, what do you see when you run |
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ok reading through some other comment threads, i think i've figured out that my .svg files must have a white layer somehow and that's why i'm getting all white images in the output. Can you help me figure out how to get rid of the white layer? I think that will solve the problem! Thanks! |
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Colors aren't baked into fonts, which means a solid white layer would actually appear as a black box — or whatever the font color is set to. As for editing, any old vector editor should make removing layers pretty straightforward — Illustrator, Inkscape, etc. Any luck? |
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Hi Kai, Sorry I hadn't gotten back to you I lef to go on vacation and it totally YES! I had success and am now able to use the system with relative ease. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Kai Zau notifications@github.com wrote:
Michael A. Chudnovsky |
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You're absolutely welcome. Thanks for being patient and helping with debugging. Congrats on the wedding! |
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Hello,
I am trying to use fontcustom to create some icons to use on a new webpage. Admittedly I don't have a lot of experience with stuff like this, but have followed instructions and searched the web for solutions.
As far as I can tell I've installed everything and things should work.
I can run/create the config file (in the directory where my *.svg files are found, but I can't compile the files and get any kind of output.
What am I doing wrong? Any help you give would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sure you'll need some more info, but not sure what to give, but will send any information you require.
Thanks in advance!
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