Pixel tool deletes wrong pixel

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2020-02-29%2019_30_21
Rainer’s pixel tool sometimes deletes the neighboring pixel, not sure why it happens :frowning: Is it fixable or am I doing something wrong?

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What does your original pixel glyph look like? Make sure the bottom left corner of the pixel square is at 0, 0.

Not mine. :slight_smile:

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The pixel square originates at 0, 0. It happens sometimes and works as expected other times.

Georg’s? I just meant it’s not the Toshe’s one :smiley:

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Can you reproduce reliably with certain pixels? Like in certain positions or always in the same glyph?

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Okay, I think it happens when the pixels are rotated 90 or 180 degrees, flipped pixels as well.
Does that help?

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also reported in mini:
https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/mini-pixel-tool-regression/13848
bug always present, even without rotation

  1. create new file
  2. set grid spacing to 100
  3. create a 100x100 pixel glyph
    Result:
    Pixel tool deletes/creates wrong pixel
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Then I’d rather suggest to fix the pixel transformations. There is a mekka blue script called Pixelfont > Reset Rotated and Mirrored Components for that very purpose.

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Thanks for the reminder. I fixed it an uploaded a new version.

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And I improved the python pixel tool, too.

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I tried it, but the macro panel throws this error:
print “Fixing %i components in %s …” % ( numOfComponents, glyphName )
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

and nothing seems to happen.

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I reinstalled it and it seems to work fine on flipped pixels, but is still off on rotated.
On another note, do you happen to have a script that would step through components and slant them to a specified degree in place? :slight_smile:

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Can you send me a sample of pixel glyphs, so I can update the script?

This is easy to do yourself if you read through the the Scripting tutorials. Hint: installing the Python for Glyphs snippets helps with the transformation, there is one snippet called transform.

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Yeah, I’ve sent you an email.

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The script had an error that prevented it from running properly. Fixed now. Please update your script repo. (If you have it as a git repo in your Scripts folder, you can run mekkablue scripts > App > Update git Repositories in Scripts Folder.)

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2020-03-02%2013_01_24
The script seems to work, but now I get this.
The pointer was a rotated nasted component, which I decomposed (the script would correctly rotate the whole nested component back, but that’s not what I need here); the single pixel components are shown as rotated, enabling/disabling auto alignment does nothing :confused:

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Have you tried the lates version of the pixel plugin? It should work with transformed components.

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Yes, I’ve just reinstalled it again: it works on flipped components, but not on rotated.

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Can you send me a file with a rotated component that doesn’t work?

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Yup, I’ve sent you the file.

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The script did not disable the automatic alignment. That’s why they snapped to the baseline. Sorry, it was a very old script and not used and updated in a long time. I just uploaded a fix. Please update your script repository. And thanks for your feedback and patience :slight_smile: