G3 shifts out of position bottom diacritcs when applying "Correct path direction"

Dezcom · May 28, 2021, 3:09pm

I selected all glyphs in file at once and applied the “Correct Path Direction” and most of my lower [_bot] diacritics shifted left one glyph width.

Dezcom · May 28, 2021, 4:21pm

Also, my nut fractions went psyco as well.

I fixed them by rerunning my formula and over writing the old ones but why would this happen?

George_Thomas · May 28, 2021, 4:34pm

Are all the paths in those glyphs components?

Dezcom · May 28, 2021, 4:52pm

Yes, they are

George_Thomas · May 28, 2021, 5:27pm

For some reason Glyphs is shifting them based on their widths. I don’t know if this is normal or not. I just tested it with a single glyph and its two reference glyphs and it did not happen to me.

Dezcom · May 28, 2021, 5:30pm

It is annoying. It should not be the expected behavior. I would assume a global checking of path direction would be very common practice and do no harm.

George_Thomas · May 28, 2021, 5:32pm

Agree. I’ve never seen it happen before. Maybe a difference in OS? I’m using 10.13.6.

GeorgSeifert · May 28, 2021, 6:36pm

Can you send me that file?

Dezcom · May 28, 2021, 7:52pm

I just emailed it to you.

Dezcom · May 28, 2021, 7:55pm

I am using 11.2.3

GeorgSeifert · May 28, 2021, 11:22pm

I see. I’ll have a look. For now, can you make a sidebar filter that only shows glyphs without components when you run Correct Path Direction?

Dezcom · May 29, 2021, 1:11am

Thanks, Georg. I already fixed the file. I will hold off on running “Correct Path” until you have some time to look it over.