I got a font file which I started years back in G2 and it contains some glyphs that are made of a pixel component. I puzzled these pixels into shape, spending hours over the time.
Now I occasionally work on that file (since years in G3) and every now and then I see that these puzzled glyphs are a complete mess. All the pixels sit side by side and not where they have been.
I have fixed these glyphs several times (spending a lot of time) and now again they are broken.
Please note that the components do not have automatic alignment on.
What is causing this, and how can I fix this once for all? I can never ship updates of the font without spending an hour of silly re-puzzling those pixels into place each time, very frustrating.
Not sure what you mean with “fonts like this”. It is a normal font (Gintronic), and it also uses components with automatic alignment. But it also contains some glyphs that are constructed like described.
So should I still disable that globally for the font? My belly would refuse to do so.
And also, why does this happen? The components have automatic alignment off, so I expect them to stay where I put them.
Then you can use a script a force disable the alignment for all components. Then you can enable the alignment on the font to use in to align composite glyphs.
Pardon my ignorance, but I still don’t understand why I have to jump through those hoops, while there is an option to not auto-align components, which I use and which is even the default setting for such components, but still my components fly all over the place.
Shouldn’t that be solved in the app instead?
And if I would make the script, what shall it do with the components? The auto alignment is already off.
So to be clear you understand my goal: I don’t want the components to be auto aligned. I only need them to stay where I move(d) them manually. I don’t think that this is a very special use case.
