Viewing glyph outlines in FL Metrics WIndow

James Montalbano14 October 2009 · 07:28

I demonstrated this in my type design class last night. All of the students were surprised that this feature existed, so I thought maybe others were unaware of its existence.

While viewing a glyph string in the metrics window, on a Mac, shift command P will unfill the glyph shapes and render them in their outline form. Very helpful if you are spacing a connecting script. Shift command N will give reveal the control nodes as well.

Just thought this might be of interest. If it is old news my apologies for wasting your time.

James

Bendy14 October 2009 · 07:54

Wow, I didn't know about this. Thanks :)

blank14 October 2009 · 07:56

Now someone just needs to locate the hotkey that makes the nodes editable.

mk214 October 2009 · 10:56

@James:

"Just thought this might be of interest. If it is old news my apologies for wasting your time."

It's still worth telling, since AFAIK it's not documented in the manual.

Craig Eliason14 October 2009 · 12:31

Cool.

Jason Castle14 October 2009 · 14:29

Thanks! Always more to learn ...

twardoch14 October 2009 · 17:32

James,

thank you very much, even I did not know that this existed! :D

Cheers,
Adam

Johnych15 October 2009 · 02:36

I knew about that feature. ;) Page 561 of the Manual (Mac).

Regards,
Johnych

yuri15 October 2009 · 04:36

Now someone just needs to locate the hotkey that makes the nodes editable.

Well, such thing exist in the code, but it is not accessible from UI. It was done as an experiment, but I realized that it will require too much changes in internal data structures and UI, so we decided to leave it for next versions (where GW and MW will certainly be integrated).

blank15 October 2009 · 06:14

…so we decided to leave it for next versions (where GW and MW will certainly be integrated).

And you just made me salivate.

Johnych15 October 2009 · 07:00

By the way the Show Layers toolbar shows very well what is possible to switch on/off when in the Metrics window.

Regards,
Johnych

twardoch22 October 2009 · 16:02

Ah, exellent Alex, thanks. I was misled by the fact that the Editing Layers *palette* is not available in the Metrics Window. I forgot however that the Show Layers *toolbar* is still available in the MW!

Cheers,
Adam

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