Cap component export and preview error

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Hello! I’m working on a project and I need to draw human characters with body, arms and hands and I decided to use cap components for the hands but if I do not decompose them before the export, the cap components don’t work properly (it also don’t show properly in the preview).

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I saw on the forum that someone else experienced this before in 2017 but I couldn’t have found a solution (except decomposing before export). Does anyone know how to solve this? A friend of mine is trying to work on a script to decompose components at the export, not directly into the file.

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Could you send me the .glyphs file. I need to have a look.

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Hello Georg, thanks for you answer!
I just sent you the file by email.

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In the hand glyphs, do not apply a stroke to the main hand outline. When exporting, all outlines are processed in order. And as the _cap glyphs come before the illustration glyphs, they get the outline appleid and thous don’t have an open path to be used as a cap any more.

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Thanks a lot! It works :slight_smile: