Place exported glyph origin at left side of baseline

fpdotmonkey commented 3 months ago

I'm trying to create an animation using some generated text similar to the Universal Studios logo animation at the start of their movies. However, I'm finding that the placement of the origin in exported glyphs makes this difficult or impossible. Here is the procedure I'm attempting.

Create the text I'd like to animate
Export Glyphs for animation
Add constraints to the exported glyphs to maintain the inter-character distance (ISSUE: the glyph origins don't line up along the baseline axis, making creating an effective constraint difficult/impossible)
Add a Follow Path constraint for my particular application
Create the animation

The issue in step 3 can be worked around by wrapping each glyph in a parent object whose origin is on the baseline.

It would be better if the origin of the glyph were normally placed at a typographically important coordinate, e.g. the typographical left side on the baseline.

stenson commented 3 months ago

makes sense! been meaning to add something like this — think I've got something working, here are some builds depending on OS:

Think you'd want "Southwest" and typographic x & y turned on (as pictured in the draft UI here)

Let me know if that's what you have in mind

fpdotmonkey commented 3 months ago

That's exactly what I had in mind, yeah! Thanks for implementing it so quickly.

coldtype / st2

Place exported glyph origin at left side of baseline #19