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« on: 2008-01-24, 12:59:00 »

Posted by: Rmullin3
         
in illustrator, by holding down the space bar while holding down the mouse button when placing a point, you can float that point around and position it right where you need it. then letting go of the space bar will allow you to position the handles.
 
does fontlab have a similar feature? sure would save me a lot of ctrl-z'ing.

         
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« Reply #1 on: 2008-01-24, 09:52:00 »

Posted by: emtype
         
Hello,

I'm working in a MM font with four masters.

I have many characters constructed with 2 pieces, for example: for the "b" a piece for the stem and one for the bowl. When I make "Merge contourns" in the master of the regular version FontLab converts another Masters (Bold, regular display and Bold display) in regular also.

Is this a bug?  (I use FL 5.0.4 MAC / OS X 10.4.11)

I'm sorry my English is a bit limited as to explain better.


thank you,


Eduardo Manso 
{ www.emtype.net } Tipografía
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« Reply #2 on: 2008-01-24, 13:50:00 »

Posted by: Adam Twardoch
         
Eduardo,

it is geometrically impossible to have a generic algorithm to merge contours in all masters at once. Imagine if you have two circles in a glyph, and they overlap in one master but do not overlap in the second -- what would be the product?

Therefore, you need to generate your instances and only then merge the contours.

Regards,
Adam

         
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« Reply #3 on: 2008-01-24, 15:29:00 »

Posted by: emtype
         

El 24/01/2008, a las 14:50, Adam Twardoch escribió:

it is geometrically impossible to have a generic algorithm to merge contours in all masters at once. Imagine if you have two circles in a glyph, and they overlap in one master but do not overlap in the second -- what would be the product? 

Therefore, you need to generate your instances and only then merge the contours. 



Adam,

Okay, this is how I am doing ...
but then I have to fix some points in the instances.

I will "manually" merge contourns in the masters.

thanks for the explanation,


Eduardo Manso 
{ www.emtype.net } Tipografía
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« Reply #4 on: 2008-01-24, 20:58:00 »

Posted by: Rmullin3
         
you hijacked my thread.
 

         
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« Reply #5 on: 2008-01-29, 20:03:00 »

Posted by: emtype
         
Adam,

Working with another font I found that:

With 4 masters "merge contours" Never works. Ok.

But when I have 2 masters  "merge contours" works in almost all cases... 
your example don't work, but overlaps compatibles work in all cases (for example the "cedilla" overlap with "c" in "ccedilla")

Why not work with "overlaps compatibles" with 4 or more masters? 
ok, is more complicated but, is not the same algorithm?


Best regards, em.


Eduardo Manso 
{ www.emtype.net } Tipografía
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El 24/01/2008, a las 14:50, Adam Twardoch escribió:

it is geometrically impossible to have a generic algorithm to merge contours in all masters at once. Imagine if you have two circles in a glyph, and they overlap in one master but do not overlap in the second -- what would be the product? 

Therefore, you need to generate your instances and only then merge the contours. 

         
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« Reply #6 on: 2008-02-07, 06:53:00 »

Posted by: Babut
         
Simply don't do that. Leave b in two pieces as long as possible.  
Merge contours in generated instances. Best and only one way.

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