Glyphs-Handbook-2013

2.10.7 Previewing in Adobe applications
For a complete preview including things like positioning
features and menu ordering, just pick File > Export (Cmd-E)
and choose /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/ as
Export Destination. The font becomes immediately available
in all Adobe applications. Any previously saved instance of
the font in this folder will be overwritten. The font will not be
available outside Adobe apps, but this is a convenient way to
circumvent any font cache problems in OS X.
If the Fonts folder does not exist, you can create it right in
the Open Folder dialog by pressing Cmd-Shift-N. In this case,
you have to restart any running Adobe apps for the change to
take eect.
2.11 EXCHANGING OUTLINES WITH ILLUSTRATOR
2.11.1 Preparation
First, find the right scale for your drawings in Adobe
Illustrator. One point in Illustrator corresponds to one unit
in Glyphs, i.e., an element that is 100 pt high will end up at a
height of 100 units in Glyphs. To quickly get the right scale,
draw a rectangle with the height of the capital letters in
Glyphs, copy and paste it into an Illustrator artboard and scale
the drawings to fit the height of the rectangle.
Alternatively, you can start in Illustrator and set the
artboard to a height of your UPM size in points, e.g., 1000 pt
if your UPM is 1000. Both ascender and descender should fit
inside the artboard.
2.11.2 Set the Page Origin
If you set the page origin to the intersection of base line and
LSB, the paths will have the right position.
In Illustrator up to Version CS4, set the origin of the page
by dragging the cross hair in the top left corner between the
rulers. In Illustrator CS5 or later, set the origin of the page in
the Artboard Options.
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