PostScript glyph hint values

Usage

# example of accessing the hint data.
# from robofab.world import CurrentFont

Description

PostScriptGlyphHintValues is the class of the object found at aGlyph.psHints. It has a couple of attributes of its own which give you access to the glyph level PostScript hint information.

The PostScriptGlyphHintValues objects, in FontLab and NoneLab flavor, can respond to add, sub, mul, rmul, div and rdiv, so you can do math with them, for instance interpolations. Available since ChangeSet 44.

Attributes

hHints

List of (position, width) tuples for horizontal.

vHints

List of (position, width) tuples.

Methods

copy()

Returns a copy of the object. Both in FontLab and NoneLab the copy will be an objectsRF.PostScriptFontHintValues.

round()

Round the values to ints as much as the nature of the values allows.

Note

• blueScale is not rounded, it is a float.
• forceBold is set to False if -0.5 < value < 0.5. Otherwise it will be True.
• blueShift, blueFuzz are rounded to integers.
• stems are rounded to integers.
• blues are rounded to integers.

asDict()

Returns a dictionary with all attributes and values of this object.

fromDict(aDict)

Rhis will look for familiar attributes in aDict and assign the value to the object.

update(anotherPSHintsObject)

This will copy values from the other object.