Rotation upon export

Glyphs
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I’m trying to export a Rotalic version of a font but the transformation panel doesn’t show a rotation parameter. Any way to circumvent this and apply rotation as a filter?

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You’d have to write your own filter for that. Or maybe there are some on the plugin manager.

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There’s a “Random Rotate” from @mekkablue that could come handy but I don’t know how to unrandomise it :sweat_smile:

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For whoever is interested, here is a very basic filter, which works with a custom parameter upon export, or in edit view if you set the angle with

Glyphs.defaults["com.eweracs.rotalic.angle"] = YOUR_ANGLE_HERE

Call it upon export with a Filter parameter: Rotalic;YOUR_ANGLE_HERE
Rotalic.glyphsFilter.zip (17.3 KB)

It rotates from an origin based on the middle of the path’s width and the middle between the ascender and descender.

Note that a positive angle means left slant.

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Thanks, ChatGPT. That’s completely wrong, by the way.

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