Get bounding box of selection excluding handles

[oneweioranother]

Is this possible, or does it need to be manually calculated some how?

[oneweioranother]

I realised I’ve asked this before!

Set transform origin to centre of selection

I tried to make this script then realised it’s harder than it seems! Is there a way to return the selected path but with extrema added, without changing the actual outlines… to calculate the correct bounding box (i.e. ignore the off-curve handles, but still include the path at bounding box when there is no extrema)?

[GeorgSeifert]

If you can get a NSBezierPath then you can ask for its bounds.

[oneweioranother]

What to do about this though Font.selectedLayers[0].selection.bezierPath.bounds() doesn’t work?

[GeorgSeifert]

(I’m not on my Mac right now.)
The layer should have a property ‘selectionPath’ or something similar.

[composerjk]

Using selectionPath that Georg suggested, then your example, for now, would look like:

Font.selectedLayers[0].selectionPath().bounds()

The layer’s selectionBounds property would include the handles whereas selectionPath().bounds() is without.

[oneweioranother]

Thank you! ! perfect