Inverted glyph: bitmap > SVG via autotrace > glyph via fontforge

Question

I am trying to create a font/glyph by:

• taking a bitmap image
• creating an SVG with autotrace (on Linux)
• importing the outline as a glyph with pyt

Answer 1

In case anyone's curious about doing this with Autotrace, it's because the first child of an autotrace SVG of an image with a white background is a path that defines a white background. I solved the problem by writing a small program that removes the first child of the SVG before importing, but you can also delete the rectangle in FontForge by editing the glyphs.