I've had other team members reporting weird Flutter crashes on iOS simulator that I've been unable to reproduce, until now.

It looks like the culprit is the *.otf file I'm generating with Fontify, the exact page the app is crashing on consistently is using icons from the generated font file, and when commenting the IconData out and replacing with default Flutter icons, no more crashing.

[VERBOSE-2:FontFamily.cpp(184)] Could not get cmap table size!
[VERBOSE-3:FontCollection.cpp(95)] nTypefaces == 0

It can be reproduced reliably when running the app on iOS 11.4 simulator.

Related Flutter issues that have the same error have suggested spacing within the font family name and/or filename as the culprit, but I don't have either present in my font file or pubspec.yaml.

My fontify.yaml (if it helps)

fontify:
  input_svg_dir: "assets/svg/"
  output_font_file: "assets/fonts/my_icons.otf"

  output_class_file: "lib/src/my_icons.dart"
  class_name: "MyIcons"
  indent: 4
  package: "my_icons"

  font_name: "MyIcons"
  normalize: true
  ignore_shapes: false

  recursive: true
  verbose: false

Any ideas?

Hello,

I have an issue/feature request about icon positioning. I will try to describe the situation with some pictures.

I have 3 SVG files, each one represents a bar in a progress/signal display like icon: They are separate because the colors need to be different depending on some circumstances, so I plan to display each in a Stack so I can color them separately. Every SVG has 128x128 width + height and view box.

Instead of building/launching the app I use this website to inspect the glyphs inside the font: Torinak. When I build the font with fontify it will resize and center every path: This is because of the normalize option I think, so when I try it with normalize: false this is the result: As you can see in this case the icons are not in the correct position.

When I try to import the same files in FlutterIcon the result is what I am aiming for:

Would it be possible to have the same output as with FlutterIcon? Do you think this could be a bug or can this feature be implemented? I would prefer using Fontify if this can be accomplished as the project would not need an external website to convert the icons.

Thank you!

Flutter supports rendering chromatic icons.

However, when I use fontify on a set of .svg files in which some of them have colors, the resulting .otf has a single and monochromatic shape.

For example, for this SVG:

The result glyph is:

Is there a way to preserve SVG colors when generating an .otf with fontify?

Hi,

Nice utility. Makes things easier.

I wonder when you plan to update to null-safety? Currently I see it is cross-labelled as not supporting null safety:

fontify              ✗0.2.0   ✗0.2.0      -           ✗0.2.0

Context: I currently have a generic Icon font package (lets call it 'MyCustomFonts') that I intend add as a dependency and import across multiple projects for work.

Currently if I were to use fontify to generate the Icon class, I would have to include the generated *.otf file in the apps' pubspec.yaml for the icons to correctly render, but this isn't ideal when I just want to be able to import my custom font package like any other dependency.

Alternatively, if the pubspec.yaml of MyCustomFonts includes the font file asset, and then in the generated Icon class we set the fontPackage parameter for each IconData to point to it's own package, eg:

static const _kFontFamily = 'MyFontFamily';

static const _kFontPackage = 'MyCustomFonts';

static const IconData some_icon =
      IconData(0xe000, fontFamily: _kFontFamily, fontPackage: _kFontPackage);

it means not having to manually include the *.otf in the new apps we want to use the font package with, and the only thing to do is just add the MyCustomFonts package to the new apps pubspec.yaml and the icons are good to go.

I've currently forked fontify to hardcode the value I want for this variable in flutter_class_gen.dart and considered making a PR, but I don't quite understand the rest of the package to fully implement setting this via a CLI argument and fontify.yaml configuration.

Hello @westracer,

Thanks for this package! So far it works great for me.

Currently I am using it as a dev dependency in a project, where I have the svg files in the assets folder and added the generated font and dart class to .gitignore. So it works in a similar way as build_runner generated files. But to generate the desired output I always have to specify all the arguments and options in the command, e.g. flutter pub run fontify assets/svg/ fonts/app_icons.otf --output-class-file=lib/presentation/utils/app_icons.dart -r -c AppIcons. Right now I have the command added to README.md, but it would be a lot easier if a config file could be read for this. Something like in flutter_launcher_icons. I would prefer a separate config file, but maybe it could also be placed inside pubspec.yaml or handling both options would be even better.

What do you think of this?

Hi, thanks for the upgrade to null safety. I previously used fontify as the following:

>  flutter pub run fontify

and it read all settings from fontify section in my pubspec.yaml file:

fontify:
  input_svg_dir: "assets/svgs/"
  output_font_file: "assets/fonts/AssetIcons.otf"

  output_class_file: "lib/icons.dart"
  class_name: "AssetIcons"
  indent: 4
  font_name: "AssetIcons"
  normalize: true
  ignore_shapes: true

  recursive: true
  verbose: false

And it worked.

Now I need to run it as the following in order to get the same result:

flutter pub run fontify assets/svgs/ assets/fonts/AssetIcons.otf

Basically, it has got now 2 mandatory arguments which are also in the config file.

Is it possible to put the previous behaviour back?

Hi,

It's possible to convert using CLI. I just need to know if I could use this package to convert to font using an application, i.e., call this package from inside my function. If possible, could you explain me how? Thanks

This generated file is part of a (Flutter) project. However, the private constructor can't be tested. So projects using this can't aim for 100% coverage. With this line you can ignore this complete file from the test coverage. We could also use

// coverage:ignore-line to ignore one line.
// coverage:ignore-start and // coverage:ignore-end to ignore range of lines inclusive.

I get the following error when i run fontify

[I]  Using config fontify.yaml
[E]  NoSuchMethodError: The method 'split' was called on null.
Receiver: null
Tried calling: split(RegExp: pattern=[\s|,] flags=)

This is my config file

fontify:
  input_svg_dir: "cityapp/"
  output_font_file: "cityapp/fonts/my_icons_font.otf"
  
  output_class_file: "cityapp/my_icons.dart"
  class_name: "MyIcons"
  indent: 4
  package: my_font_package

  font_name: "My Icons"
  normalize: true
  ignore_shapes: true

  recursive: true
  verbose: false