What exactly does this transformation do? Having tried it, I don’t find it obvious.
I want the resulting location to be independent of the initial position.
Mike
It moves all of the contours in the selected glyph(s) to a fixed horizontal and vertical position.
Select which corner or side you want to be moved to that position.
Try it and see is often the best policy to see how things work. Copy the glyph or glyphs first since there’s no undo for transformations.
Bhikkhu - Thank you! My problem was irratic behaivior which came about in a surprising way…
Two other glyphs in the transformation script had typos in their codepoints and produced
very strange effects on the glyphs I was looking at.
Now I know to do a Find on codepoint id of any glyph that misbehaves.
Mike
The above dialog took place with regular fonts in mind. The sidebearings are vertical
rectangles. I’m happy with the functionality of the Transform Wizard in this respect
BUT I have just realised this does nor work for my italic fonts!
Is there some way of detecting the extreme left (or right) hand side with a sloping line?
Even better would be a bounding box that was inclined at the italic slope angle.
Mike
Isn’t that what happens if you select to position the bottom right corner?
I am applying the same transforms to the regular and the oblique. The spaces to the left and right of the letters (sidebearings) are all vertical rectangles. However for oblique letters the sidebearings should also be oblique parallelograms!
In the example the same OpenType script is used for both fonts. The transformations all use vertical bounding boxes.
Imagine placing a cursor between letters in the top line of text then imagine how that cursor in the same position in the lower line would ‘force’ some of the letters apart depending on whether the glyph occupies the top or bottom corner of the bounding box.
Mike