I like that Stitcher plugin mr @mekkablue , is there a way to make it so the component rotates to follow the path? so: if the component is a dash, it could be set to always cross the path at 90°, know what I mean? ta.
Maybe add an issue in the Stitcher repo?
OK, I just updated the plug-in. Add an anchor called orientation to the original glyph of the component that is supposed to be rotated, like this:
Then it will be rotated around the path, with the origin point as pivot:
well, this is a rather lovely surprise, thank you very much kind sir!
my dear sir: I removed the old Stitcher via the plugin manager/updated Glyphs/reinstalled Stitcher via the plugin manager. But still no rotatings! I copied your example exactly, including the anchors for origin and orientation. I’m keen to try this, can you see what I am doing wrong?
Do you get an error message in the Macro Window?
nope. not a sausage. I get results like the old stitcher, but no orientation of the component
I have uninstalled/reinstalled the plug-in several times, I am on the latest version of Glyphs [3.3 (3336)] and I have removed all other plug-ins, but the components are still all pointing the same way
Can you send me a test file?
Stitch test.glyphs (9.4 KB)
Update: I have seen an incompatibility with the Balance option.
Still researching, thanks for the file in the meantime.
Just updated the plug-in to version 2.1.1, hoping I fixed the angle calculation for the Balanced option.
(Issue was I did it arithmetically when I should have calculated it geometrically, if that tells you anything.)
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no good news here, I am sorry to say. I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice, with machine restarts in between, but I still cannot get the goshdarned components to follow the orientation anchor. The origin anchor seems fine. I have tried with closed and open paths (both seem to work like the original stitcher) and I have tried moving the orientation anchor about = no joy yet
There is nothing in the macro window?
I could clean up some more minor tidbits, but still, I cannot reproduce your issue on my end. Perhaps we can schedule for a Zoom call one of thee days?
Update: I can reproduce the issue now. Investigating. It is a git issue. The version did not update for some reason, Plugin Manager kept checking out an old version.
damn that Git. let me know when the new one is on there. thanks: tim
Should work now. Minor updates may be coming in the next days because I am not sure I got all changes from both branches.
it’s working! thank you very much for making these additions, and for your time on the fixings
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