#34 Guidelines

[David Carter]

Hi,

Please forgive me if I have overlooked something in the documentation but I can't see a way of drawing guidelines. I watched a tutorial on YouTube where this chap just used the pen tool in the Guides layer, but when I try this the line shows up as solid black, like a regular line.

If I open an existing OTF font from Adobe, then I can see all their guides labelled G1, G2 etc and they are blue, feint and dashed, as one might expect a guideline to be. Perhaps it is not currently possible to draw these kind of lines?

Running on Mac, version 20190801.

Thank you kindly,
David.

[David Carter]

Bizarrely, watching a tutorial on illustrator showed me how to create guides - by dragging down from the horizontal ruler or right from the vertical ruler (this triggered one of those faint 'oh might have seen this before' bell sounds in the back of my brain). Doing so brings up a dialog and one can name the guideline. However the guidelines are not faint, blue or dashed like the ones I see if I open an OTF font. Is it possible to modify the line so that it is at least a different colour?

[Dave Crossland]

This issue tracker is deprecated, please try
Github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues :)

On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 17:59, David Carter woodspiral@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:

Bizarrely, watching a tutorial on illustrator showed me how to create
guides - by dragging down from the horizontal ruler or right from the
vertical ruler (this triggered one of those faint 'oh might have seen this
before' bell sounds in the back of my brain). Doing so brings up a dialog
and one can name the guideline. However the guidelines are not faint, blue
or dashed like the ones I see if I open an OTF font. Is it possible to
modify the line so that it is at least a different colour?

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• [support-requests:#34]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/fontforge/support-requests/34/ Guidelines*

Status: open
Group: v1.0 (example)
Created: Tue Jan 21, 2020 06:49 PM UTC by David Carter
Last Updated: Tue Jan 21, 2020 06:49 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hi,

Please forgive me if I have overlooked something in the documentation but
I can't see a way of drawing guidelines. I watched a tutorial on YouTube
where this chap just used the pen tool in the Guides layer, but when I try
this the line shows up as solid black, like a regular line.

If I open an existing OTF font from Adobe, then I can see all their guides
labelled G1, G2 etc and they are blue, feint and dashed, as one might
expect a guideline to be. Perhaps it is not currently possible to draw
these kind of lines?

Running on Mac, version 20190801.

Thank you kindly,
David.

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[David Carter]

Thanks, I've moved it over there:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4112

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:58 PM Dave Crossland crossland@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

This issue tracker is deprecated, please try
Github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues :)

On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 17:59, David Carter
woodspiral@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:

Bizarrely, watching a tutorial on illustrator showed me how to create
guides - by dragging down from the horizontal ruler or right from the
vertical ruler (this triggered one of those faint 'oh might have seen this
before' bell sounds in the back of my brain). Doing so brings up a dialog
and one can name the guideline. However the guidelines are not faint, blue
or dashed like the ones I see if I open an OTF font. Is it possible to
modify the line so that it is at least a different colour?

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• [support-requests:#34]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/fontforge/support-requests/34/
  https://sourceforge.net/p/fontforge/support-requests/34/ Guidelines*

Status: open
Group: v1.0 (example)
Created: Tue Jan 21, 2020 06:49 PM UTC by David Carter
Last Updated: Tue Jan 21, 2020 06:49 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hi,

Please forgive me if I have overlooked something in the documentation but
I can't see a way of drawing guidelines. I watched a tutorial on YouTube
where this chap just used the pen tool in the Guides layer, but when I try
this the line shows up as solid black, like a regular line.

If I open an existing OTF font from Adobe, then I can see all their guides
labelled G1, G2 etc and they are blue, feint and dashed, as one might
expect a guideline to be. Perhaps it is not currently possible to draw
these kind of lines?

Running on Mac, version 20190801.

Thank you kindly,
David.

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• [support-requests:#34]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/fontforge/support-requests/34/ Guidelines*

Status: open
Group: v1.0 (example)
Created: Tue Jan 21, 2020 06:49 PM UTC by David Carter
Last Updated: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:59 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hi,

Please forgive me if I have overlooked something in the documentation but
I can't see a way of drawing guidelines. I watched a tutorial on YouTube
where this chap just used the pen tool in the Guides layer, but when I try
this the line shows up as solid black, like a regular line.

If I open an existing OTF font from Adobe, then I can see all their guides
labelled G1, G2 etc and they are blue, feint and dashed, as one might
expect a guideline to be. Perhaps it is not currently possible to draw
these kind of lines?

Running on Mac, version 20190801.

Thank you kindly,
David.

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