Font-wide alignment control

[ekke.wolf]

Good Morning,
I’m recently editing a pixel font which was set up by another designer in Glyphs Mini first and Glyphs 3 (3151) later. I’m using Glyphs 3184.
Each glyph is built of components referring to one single “master pixel”. Automatic Alignment is enabled. As soon as I try to apply any changes or save the file all the glyphs collapse: the pixel components are then sitting side by side on the baseline spaced as the origin pixel glyph.
How can I avoid this problem?
I’ve made a few tests and found that disabling the automatic alignment would keep the intented letterforms.
Is there a possibility to disable automatic alignment font-wide instead of shifting from glyph to glyph?
Or do I have a better way to avoid collapsing pixels by some settings?

Thank you very much
Ekke

[SCarewe]

To disable automatic alignment for all glyphs in the font, regardless of selection (paste and run in macro window):

for glyph in Font.glyphs:
    for layer in glyph.layers:
        for component in layer.components:
            component.automaticAlignment = False

Can you post a screenshot of before and after you save your file, so the different states that automatic alignment results in?

[GeorgSeifert]

Or, disable alignment in Font Info > Other.

[ekke.wolf]

The line of pixels is what happens after editing and saving.
Thanks for the macro script, but I would rather choose Georg’s advice with checking the item in Font Info.