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How to align nodes in Glyphs?
Posted by Eimantas Paškonis in
30 Dec 2011 — 8:21am
30 Dec 2011 — 8:21am
In FL, it's dead simple - you have 2 rulers for pixel-accurate positioning.
In Glyphs, it's big circles with thick anti-aliased line. Do I need to turn on something?
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30 Dec 2011 — 3:15pm
shift+cmd+a ?
or transformation palette to align shapes (as in Illustrator)
9 Jan 2012 — 11:55am
cmd+shift+a worked, but palette did not react at all.
10 Jan 2012 — 1:11am
Have you selected 2 different paths while using palette?
10 Jan 2012 — 2:51am
You mean nodes? Yes I did.
10 Jan 2012 — 6:25am
no, paths.
the align buttons on the palette align entire paths but not nodes within a path.
To align 2 or more nodes (or anchors) use shift+cmd+a.
Did you read the Glyphs guide?
http://glyphsapp.com/dateien/GlyphsHandbook20111222.pdf
10 Jan 2012 — 10:09am
But shortcut aligns nodes only to the relative center between them. What if I want only 1 node to be moved? As it's usually the case.
Let's say stem's upper node is a bit off to the left. I want it to move to buttom one's X position.
Thanks for the link, but there's no info on that.
12 Jan 2012 — 2:42am
Good point. I forwarded to the developer asking to give the possibility to set the origin.
Thank you!
20 Jan 2012 — 1:33am
Hello!
update Glyphs to 1.2 to be able to set an anchor for nodes alignment.
Notice that it aligns the nodes to the path's smaller edge.
If you need more control, open the lock in the info box and set the width or height to 0.