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Importing SVG artwork

Importing SVG artwork

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Importing SVG artwork

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Some of you may have chosen to work with a Vector art program other than Adobe Illustrator. If that's the case, you're going to need another way to import your artwork into Glyphs Mini because with Illustrator, we can simply copy and paste it. That same sort of functionality doesn't really exist with other programs, so if you're going to use one of those, I want to show you how you can import SVG files into Glyphs Mini. So, I have the chunky mobile file open from the 04 07 directory and, as you can see, you know, we are just kind of picking up where we left off. We've got the Glyph characters that we've been adding to the file. And, you know, one of the things is, a lot of the stuff inside Glyphs Mini isn't all that intuitive. Let's say I want to import some artwork, you know, the first place I would look is probably the menu. So, I don't see anything under File. Under Glyph, we have a couple of things that look promising, but I'm not really seeing any import SVG stuff. If I go into…

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