Fontlab7: bold effect creates extra nodes?

Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) Posts: 213

May 2020 edited May 2020 in Font Technology

I've started experimenting with masters, variations, and instances in Fontlab7, and ran into trouble almost immediately.

To get two masters to play with, I used the "bold" effect on one of my fonts. 

But when I use the matchmaker tool, I see a spiderweb of mismatched nodes. I realized the bold effect created different (and at times nonsensical) nodes. I thought the bold effect would just move the existing nodes around. 

Is this because I have some kind of grid fitting setting turned on, perhaps? Or are my curves no good? Or are the effects not really suitable for this?

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  John Hudson Posts: 3,364

  May 2020

  I recommend posting a query on the FL7 forum, including some images of your starting outlines and the results of the bold effect.
  

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  Yury Yarmola Posts: 23

  May 2020

  There are 2 different "bold" algorithms in FL7, but I agree with John, please continue on FL forum.

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  Chris Lozos Posts: 1,459

  May 2020

  Bold effect always requires cleanup, it is just a starting point
  

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