Expand Path with Brush

Glyphs
1

It would be nice like how it is in FontLab to be able to offset a stroke with a circular brush and set x, y, roundness and angle of the circle.

Thanks!

2

Do you want the path expanded with a brush or with an ellipse? The former is difficult, the latter you can already do. For the angle you would quickly rotate all glyphs, then expand, then rotate back.

3

I’m not sure if I understand but I’d like to be able to do this

http://i.imgur.com/d7vOnZb.png

I came across a problem while trying to rotate my strokes though:

when I rotate one of my characters (a double story ‘a’) at 30° from bottom left of bounding box, the character completely disappears and is displaying the location as

x=1101
y=-1996918623117814272
w=7452601760056169472
h=3993837174553313280

This didn’t happen with ‘n’. I instead tried to rotate the ‘a’ with the Rotate Around Anchor script and set anchor to origin; this worked.

I think I understand you to be saying that what I want to achieve can not be done in Glyphs? As I tried rotating and setting different values for the horizontal and vertical offset and the result is not what applying an ellipse brush would create.

4

What is your transformation origin? Maybe set it to 1/2 x-height.