isabella232 / showangledhandles

Glyphs Plugin for highlighting BCPs which are not completely horizontal or vertical (menu item View > Show Angled Handles)

ShowAngledHandles.glyphsReporter

This is a plugin for the Glyphs font editor by Georg Seifert. It highlights BCPs (‘handles’) which are not horizontal or vertical, quite-but-not-completely-straight line segments, duplicate paths, crossed handles, and zero handles. After installation, it will add the menu item View > Show Angled Handles (Cmd-Y, German: Ansicht > Schräge Anfasser anzeigen).

Installation

1. Download the complete ZIP file and unpack it, or clone the repository.
2. Double click the .glyphsReporter file. Confirm the dialog that appears in Glyphs.
3. Restart Glyphs

Usage Instructions

1. Open a glyph in Edit View.
2. Use View > Show Angled Handles (Cmd-Y) to toggle the highlighting of of handles which are not completely straight.

Requirements

The plugin requires app version 2.3 (837) or later, running on OS X 10.9.1 or later. For older versions of Glyphs, use the _old file enclosed in the repository.

License

Copyright 2013 Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (@mekkablue). Including sample code by Georg Seifert (@schriftgestalt) and Jan Gerner (@yanone).

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

See the License file included in this repository for further details.