The tutorial mentions:
One point in Illustrator corresponds to one unit in Glyphs
Unfortunately that is not true anymore. If you work with large documents in Illustrator, one point in Illustrator corresponds to 1/10 of a unit in Glyphs. Bummer.
(make a new AI-Document e.g. 20 000 points wide to try it out)
Things that influence the size/positioning when pasting from Illustrator:
- font > custom parameter > “Point To Unit Ratio” (e.g. 10)
The drawing will be scaled by that amount. So it will be bigger when pasted in Glyphs and smaller when pasting to Illustrator. - defaults > “GSScalePasteToUPM”
The drawing will be scaled and moved to fit between the ascender and descender. You can draw a rect around your drawing. That rect will be used to measure the size but will not be added to the layer.
Nice, thanks!
What I mentioned is not a Glyphs issue, just that the tutorial needs an amendment. Illustrator “Large Documents” is a new feature (to design huge banners on proper scale), but Illustrator seems to have just shifted the comma by one place in the document, and the clipboard was forgotten.