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Show Stems Pro

made with heart by Mark Frömberg

The famous plugin now available for Glyphs 3 with piles of improvements and new features.

💡 Minimum Glyphs version: build 3062.

⚠️ Do not download directly from here. Please install via GlyphsApp’s Plugin Manager ⚠️

 

Features & Highlights

  • You can now download it from the Plugin Manager right inside of GlyphsApp
  • ✨NEW✨ You can move the beams now by simply dragging them around. No keyboard needed anymore.
  • ✨NEW✨ Improved rendering
    • Works well in Dark Mode 📺 1
  • Show Matches to values in Dimensions Palette 📺 2
    • Toggle: All almost values / Only the closes match
  • ✨NEW✨ Highlight matching stems (also in italic mode)
  • Toggle: measure off-path / on-path only
  • ✨NEW✨ Color is now the Mac selection color `📺 4
  • ✨NEW✨ Display size is tied to the three handle sizes from GlyphsApp Preferences 📺 5
  • ✨NEW✨ Stick To Cursor (Beta): When enabled, the display will stick to the cursor, relocating the measurement beams in realtime.
  • ✨NEW✨ Toggle: Display the values inside / outside of current layer 📺 3
  • Toggle: Vertical Beam show / don’t show
    • Toggle: Use Italic Angle / plain vertical
  • Toggle: Measure with overlaps removed / with overlaps
  • ✨NEW✨ Automatic Updates

📺 1

Show.Stems.-.Dark.Mode.mov

📺 2

Show.Stems.-.Matches.Almost.Values.mov

📺 3

Show.Stems.-.Outside.Mode.mov

📺 4

Show.Stems.-.Colors.mp4

📺 5

Show.Stems.-.Sizes.mp4

📺 Together with JAF’s RMX Tuner:

Screen.Recording.2021-10-03.at.07.25.21.mov

 

Todo

 

Changelog

Expand if you’re curious.

v3.1.9

  • Highlight beams on mouse over and move them simply by dragging. No keyboard keys needed anymore (but those still work, if you prefer)

v3.1.8

  • Fix stems for components
  • Slightly smaller text badges (smaller padding). Better for many values at a time.

v3.1.5

  • Fix crash on undo and fix undo itself

v3.1.4

  • New feature: Stick To Cursor (Beta): When enabled, the display will stick to the cursor, relocating the measurement beams in realtime.

v3.1.3

  • Fix a crash when a layer had paths and components and overlaps removed was active.

v3.1.2

  • New in GlyphsApp's Plugin Manager
  • New features as seen above
  • Rewritten for Glyphs 3
  • UI improvements

 

FAQ

🙋 I can’t find it in the Plugin Manager. ➡️ You need to check if your GlyphsApp build is higher than 3062. If Glyphs doesn’t offer you a high enough version, enable activate GlyphsApp Preferences > "Updates" > “Show cutting edge versions”. Note: you can have several GlyphsApp versions

 

How to activate your license

After your purchase, the license key should be set automatically for you. If it isn’t:

Activating the plugin is easy, just follow the simple steps [click to open]
  1. 👉 Make sure you have GlyphsApp 3 build 3062 or higher.
  2. 👉 If you haven't already, download the plugin directly in the GlyphsApp Plugin Manager and restart GlyphsApp once.
  3. 👉 When you activate the plugin, you'll be prompted with a window*, click the "Enter License" button.
  4. 👉 On the screen that opens enter your Email address, and the license code from your Email.
  5. 👉 When you've completed the above, just click the "Activate License" button. Within a few seconds your product should be activated for full use!

*) If the window doesn’t show, you can right-click into the Edit Tab (that’s the window where you do your drawings) and in the context menu click "Purchase Show Stems Pro". Alternatively you can right click into the plugin’s Preview box and click "Open Registration Window".

 

How to enter a coupon

If you have a coupon, follow these steps to use it for a discount on your purchase [click to open]
  1. 👉 Make sure you have GlyphsApp 3 build 3062 or higher.
  2. 👉 If you haven't already, download the plugin directly in the GlyphsApp Plugin Manager and restart GlyphsApp once.
  3. 👉 When you activate the plugin, you'll be prompted with a window*, click the "Buy Now" button.
  4. 👉 On the screen that opens enter your Email address, and click »Continue«.
  5. 👉 Follow the form until it asks you to pay. But now click »Add Coupon« and then continue to pay.
  6. 👉 On success you should get an Email with a licence code.
  7. 👉 Use that to activate your license (steps here).

⚠️ Note: The Coupon is not the License Code. Please don’t enter the Coupon Code into the field for your License Code!

*) If the window doesn’t show, you can right-click into the Edit Tab (that’s the window where you do your drawings) and in the context menu click "Purchase Show Stems Pro". Alternatively you can right click into the plugin’s Preview box and click "Open Registration Window".

If you can’t see the »Add Coupon«, that’s likely to a reported GlyphsApp bug, switching to Dark Mode and opening the window again might solve it.