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Tip: You may need to change
your Spotlight shortcut in the
System Preferences for the Cmd-
Space shortcut to work in Glyphs.
to turn it perpendicular to its original orientation. Click and
drag a guideline to rotate it.
To turn it into a global guideline, i.e., a guideline that
appears in all glyphs throughout the master, right- or Ctrlclick
the circle and choose Make Global Guideline from the
context menu. The guideline will turn red. To make it local
again, cut and paste it. Pasted guidelines are always local.
When a guideline is selected, you can also enter values for
its position and its angle in the grey info box. By default, a
guideline will be set relative to the left sidebearing. However,
if you change the alignment of the guideline by clicking on the
Alignment icon in the info box, the guideline will stay fixed
relative to the right sidebearing. This is useful for right-to-left
scripts, slanted global guidelines or when the right sidebearing
is changed.
With the Measurement checkbox, you can turn it into a
measurement guideline. For more details on measurement
guidelines, see the section 2.7, ‘Measuring’ (p. 23).
2.4 GLYPH DISPLAY
2.4.1 Zooming
There are many ways to zoom in and out in Edit view. If you
are on a MacBook or have a trackpad to your disposal, you can
use pinch and stretch gestures. Or hold down the Option key
and use a scroll gesture or the scroll wheel of your mouse.
Or activate the Zoom tool (shortcut Z) and click in the
canvas to zoom in, Opt-click to zoom out, or click and drag
across an area that will be zoomed to fill the window. You can
temporarily activate the Zoom tool by holding down Cmd-
Space for zooming in, or Cmd-Opt-Space for zooming out.
Or you can use the zoom commands from the View menu:
Zoom In (Cmd-plus) and Zoom Out (Cmd-dash). Zoom to Active
Layer (Cmd-zero) will maximize the area between ascender
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