Regarding Glyphs 3

[MortenRostgaard (MORTEN ROSTGAARD OLSEN)]

Hi: I have a strange issue here … When I try to scale a form 2% vertically, the form become ultra small? Please have a look at the attached pictures. Btw: This operation works well in Glyphs 2.
Best, Morten

Skærmbillede 2023-04-19 kl. 07.13.53|690x458

[tribby]

I believe the issue is that Glyphs 3 wants you to express the percentage as 98% rather than 2%

[MortenRostgaard (MORTEN ROSTGAARD OLSEN)]

Well, then the result looks like that:

[tribby]

Sorry I wasn’t more clear, it’s not intuitive. You’ll want to try this, pressing the button on the right:

The upper field is horizontal and lower is vertical. If you only want to scale one, the other needs to be at 100%

[MortenRostgaard (MORTEN ROSTGAARD OLSEN)]

Thanks! Now it works

[FlorianPircher]

Scaling 10% up and later 10% down does not get you back where you started because that is how percentages work and that was causing issues. The new system is reversible. Now, you can scale (right button) by, say, 110%, and later reverse scale (left button) back to the original size.

See also:

Reverse scale don't work properly G3 [3046]

This functionality has changed from Glyphs 2. If your intention is to shrink by 10%, then enter 90 in the field and press the right scale button. The left button is to reverse that scale. To increase the size by 10%, enter 110 in the field and press the right scale button. So, in your example video with 10% in the field, the reverse scale (left) button is the reverse of a 10% scale; if you’d pressed the right scale button with 10%, then the selection would’ve been scaled to 10% of the original …