Copy stroke attribute across glyphs?

Ginjam · June 21, 2022, 8:47pm

Hello, Is there a way to set or change the stroke weight attribute across a whole bunch of glyphs rather than individually path by path, glyph by glyph?
I’ve got all glyphs stroked with one weight and want to increase the weight to make a heavier version.
Cheers
Jamie

SCarewe · June 21, 2022, 9:06pm

Paste this in the Macro Window and adjust weight and width accordingly for all selected layers:

height = 30
width = 30

for layer in Font.selectedLayers:
	for path in layer.paths:
		path.attributes["strokeHeight"] = height
		path.attributes["strokeWidth"] = width

(Of course also click “Run” after adjusting the values)

Ginjam · June 21, 2022, 9:23pm

Will do! Thanks very much, that’s super helpful.

mekkablue · June 22, 2022, 3:48am

There is a mekkablue script for that.

Ginjam · June 22, 2022, 8:48am

Thanks!

ctynes · October 21, 2022, 4:49pm

Is there a shortcut to make stroke weight increase/decrease?

GeorgSeifert · October 21, 2022, 9:34pm

No, but one could write two scripts and assign shortcuts to them.

FlorianPircher · October 21, 2022, 9:51pm

If the ‘W’ or ‘H’ field is active, you can increase/decrease the value by using the Up and Down arrow keys. Hold down Shift for steps of size 10, Shift-Command for steps of size 100.

ctynes · October 31, 2022, 4:07pm

I wonder if that would be a good exercise for someone’s first script. I’ll see if I can give it a shot. I’ve really been wanting to try to learn scripting. I do use your tip all the time to decrease the opacity of the image from the macro panel.

FlorianPircher · October 31, 2022, 4:17pm

If you reuse a macro frequently, I recommend creating your own scripts collection. Then the script appears in the Script menu and you can assign it a keyboard shortcut. See:

Feature request: copy-paste entire variable table data

To create a script, go to the Script menu and choose Open Scripts Folder (⇧⌘Y). A Finder window will open with the Scripts folder selected.

Go into the Scripts folder and create a new folder. Most people name it after themselves, so name the folder “KTKM”. I named mine “Florian Pircher”.

Open a plain text editor. If you are used to code editors like TextMate, Sublime Text, or VS Code, those work well. If not, use the TextEdit app included on the Mac.

(If using TextEdit) Create a new file with File → New. Ensure that you are in plain text mode, not rich text mode. If you see formatting controls (font, font size, text alignment, …) in the window toolbar, convert the document to plain text mode by choosing Format → Make Plain Text (⇧⌘T).

Paste the code of the script.

Add a new line at the beginning of the file with # MenuTitle: Some Script where “Some Script” is the name of the script.

Save the file to your new scripts folder (e.g. “KTKM”). The filename is the name of the script and .py at the end. If you edit in TextEdit, ensure that If no extension is provided, uses “.txt”. is unchecked, like so:

1300×900 96.1 KB

With the file saved, go back to Glyphs, open the Script menu, hold down the Option key and choose Reload Scripts (⌥⇧⌘Y, scripts are automatically reloaded when relaunching Glyphs).

Open the Script menu again and you will find your script folder as a submenu with the script place in it:

772×516 69.1 KB

Assign a keyboard shortcut to the script by going to Glyphs → Preferences… → Shortcuts. There, search for your script, click Record shortcut, and press the key combination that should trigger the script (make sure the same shortcut is not already used in Glyphs).

Now, pressing the keyboard shortcut will run the script. If anything goes wrong because some error is in the script code, it will be printed to the console in the Macro panel.

mekkablue · October 31, 2022, 10:14pm

TL,DR. There are scripts for batch applying stroke attributes.