Add Extra Anchorpoints

[melvin_uspo (M)]

Hi,

is there a way to add extra anchor points to a curve or shape? (like the add anchor points in Adobe Illustrator)
I’m not talking about adding them manually
Cheers!

[mekkablue (Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer)]

Only for circles? Rotate 45 degrees and add extremes, then rotate back if you like.

Or in the middle of all segments of all sorts of shapes? That is a task for a script:

for thisPath in Layer.paths:
	# step backwards through nodes so we do not mess up point indexes:
	for thisNode in thisPath.nodes[::-1]:
		if thisNode.type != OFFCURVE:
			# on-curve index + 0.5 is the center of the segment:
			pathTime = thisNode.index+0.5
			thisPath.insertNodeWithPathTime_(pathTime)

(Sidenote: Please use the term on-curve because anchor means something else in fontmaking land.)

[melvin_uspo (M)]

@mekkablue

Or in the middle of all segments of all sorts of shapes? That is a task for a script:

for thisPath in Layer.paths:
	# step backwards through nodes so we do not mess up point indexes:
	for thisNode in thisPath.nodes[::-1]:
		if thisNode.type != OFFCURVE:
			# on-curve index + 0.5 is the center of the segment:
			pathTime = thisNode.index+0.5
			thisPath.insertNodeWithPathTime_(pathTime)

(Sidenote: Please use the term on-curve because anchor means something else in fontmaking land.)

Yes! Thast is what I was looking for.
Also thanks for the short lesson on correct terminology

[GeorgSeifert]

What do you need that for?

[melvin_uspo (M)]

I want to create a typeface with no curves. The idea is pretty similar to gt cinetype.

[mekkablue (Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer)]

You could also use the Roughen filter for that with 0 offset.