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How to equally distribute space between nodes in FL?
Posted by Eimantas Paškonis in
14 May 2011 — 1:20am
14 May 2011 — 1:20am
Well, the title says it all.
Illustrator has this function that equally distributes space between selected nodes.
And I can't seem to find one in FL5. Searched in the manual, in the internets - no luck.
That would save me lots of time without needing to measure space between nodes, divide it by 2 and then position third node in the middle manually.
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14 May 2011 — 1:35am
All those alignment features are indeed missing. I just copy and paste it to Illustrator, make the adjustments there and copy it back again.
Make sure you have an Illustrator document that is compatible to your font metrics:
http://haikumonkey.net/2008/04/from-illustrator-to-fontlab/
14 May 2011 — 2:11am
Bummer :(
14 May 2011 — 10:07am
Activate the ruler tool. Hold control, drag a ruler between the points, release the mouse button, and use the resulting pop-up window to create a guide 50% between the two points. Place the point on the guide and then delete the guide.
Or just write a robofab script that measures the selected path segment and inserts a point along the way.
15 May 2011 — 1:06am
Thats a good tip with a ruler - thanks!
15 May 2011 — 3:50am
Fog had the simplest and most flexible tool for this. Select one, two or x number of points, type cmmd-= and the reference point jumped to the middle of the selection.
To damn elegant for FL, I guess.
16 May 2011 — 12:54am
?
16 May 2011 — 1:36am
Fog = Fontographer
FL = FontLab
David, do you know if they retained that functionality in the latest version of Fontographer?
16 May 2011 — 8:48am
CorelDraw's solution is even more elegant: simply select a nodes with the Node Tool and hit the plus sign on the numeric keypad. CorelDraw inserts a perfectly centered node following the selected point based on contour rotation...
17 May 2011 — 9:39am
>David, do you know if they retained that functionality in the latest version of Fontographer?
Yes, cmmd-B.
17 May 2011 — 12:19pm
Cool. Now, if only Adam would jump on and say that this had also been adopted for the no doubt imminent release of FL 5.05!
18 May 2011 — 2:42am
Why would they do that? How could they sell fog of FL does everything fog does?
18 May 2011 — 9:48am
David:
1) Price difference.
2) People who never got comfy with FL and would like to go back home.
hhp
18 May 2011 — 10:01am
#2 Yup!
18 May 2011 — 10:24am
3) There are simply some things FOG does better than FL.