Smart components ignore intermediate masters until reloaded

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Not sure if this is a known bug, but smart components ignore intermediate masters (1) until you reopen the file (2). At least when you make them smart with a script (which I remember is not official yet).

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Could you send me a sample file?

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smart components bug.glyphs (14.0 KB)

Steps to recreate the bug:

  1. Select the component in /n and run the script to make the comp variable;
  2. Now the component at wght 400 ignores the Regular master and interpolates it from the edges (it should be a circle but it’s not);
  3. If you save and reopen the file, the bug gets corrected.
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The script needs a small adjustment.
after this line

newAxis.name = font.axes[i].name

add this:

newAxis.setAxisId_(font.axes[i].name)

Initially, the GSSmartComponentAxis has a default id, but that is replaced by the name of the axis. That causes the change in behavior.

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