Manual hinting

Glyphs
#1

I have 2 questions concerning the manual hinting:

  1. When i take the »o« and make the 4 necessary hintings via the context menu, in some designs it really makes a difference in indesign and prints. BUT, when i open my glyphs file later on, i don’t see any hints i made so far. The otf still seems to have them though, as the prints are okay.

  2. How can I remove a certain Hint, if i made it, see the grey Hint area and want to change it?

newest non-app-store glyphs, thanks in advance

#2

I just realized, that the disappearing hints seem to be not normal, even with saving a new copy of the *.glyphs they stay. But in another font, were they seem to work now, the former settings are still away. perhaps a bug?

the second question is still hot :slight_smile:

#3

The hints are not imported from the .otf file. So they are in the file but will not show up in Glyphs.

#4

But, for letters like the “o”, it should not make a difference. Can you check the file.raw in the temp folder. This is a text file and you can see what hints are actually in the file.

#5

i don’t import otf files. with otf i just meant, that i can see a difference in indesign whether i manually hint (e.g. the »e«, »n«, »U« made huge problems before, even though autohinting was enabled at he export)

What should i search for in the .raw? if i search »hint« nothing happens.

#6

and about deleting or changing manually set hints?

#7

can you send me the zipped temp folder? I will have a look.

#8

Mark
Deleting a manually set hint:

  1. activate it by clicking on the grey coordinate badge
  2. press the delete key

Does this not work for you?

#9

zip will come.

when i say »make horizontal hint« the grey bar appears, but i cannot activate the grey bar, if you mean this one.

and now i saw, that the formerly set hints are away again. perhaps this is the next day i come back to the file. could not find out till now.

#10

also my annotations dissapear from the file somehow.

#11
Where do you click? You need to click into the grey badge on the left or at the bottom to activate the hint. Then you just hit the backspace key:

http://f.cl.ly/items/3W270U240i2H43013Y1K/Hints.mov

#12

Thank you very much, mekkablue. I clicked onto the grey bars that actually show the hints. Did not realize the bades next to them. sorry, my fault. thank you for taking the time!

#13

Wow! I didn’t see the badges neither until now! thanks!