Cannot generate OTF from UFOCentral converted UFO

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  • November 24, 2014 at 11:02 #6038

    javburg
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    Hi,
    I’m having trouble generating an OTF from an ufo generated with UFOCentral. The ufo works perfectly in Robofont, but as soon as I try to generate an otf I get this output:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “lib/fontObjects/doodleFontCompiler/baseCompiler.pyc”, line 281, in compile
    File “ufo2fdk/makeotfParts.pyc”, line 64, in compile
    File “ufo2fdk/makeotfParts.pyc”, line 79, in setupFile_outlineSource
    File “ufo2fdk/outlineOTF.pyc”, line 80, in compile
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/ttLib/__init__.py”, line 200, in save
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/ttLib/__init__.py”, line 596, in _writeTable
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/ttLib/__init__.py”, line 608, in getTableData
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/ttLib/tables/C_F_F_.py”, line 20, in compile
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/cffLib.py”, line 77, in compile
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/cffLib.py”, line 161, in toFile
    File “/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/fontTools/cffLib.py”, line 226, in toFile
    UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\u2013′ in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

    I’ve deleted the endash (u2013) glyph and tried to generate it again, but it still does not want to work.
    Any thoughts on how to solve this?
    Jaco

    November 25, 2014 at 09:47 #6039

    javburg
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    I’ve found a work around for the issue. I generated a base ufo (UFO Central) without font info, kerning etc. and with this file I could generate the otf. So I generated a new ufo with kerning and groups selected and then I added these to the base ufo and now the file works properly. I’m figuring there was an issue with the lib or font info file.

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