<![CDATA[Component in background layers not visible]]>When I place a component in the background layer, the component is not visible in the glyph editor window, but shows as placed in the Base Glyph list.

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]]>https://forum.robofont.com/topic/634/component-in-background-layers-not-visibleRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 18:20:50 GMTFri, 03 May 2019 17:59:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Component in background layers not visible on Fri, 03 May 2019 17:59:30 GMT]]>When I place a component in the background layer, the component is not visible in the glyph editor window, but shows as placed in the Base Glyph list.

Screen Shot 2019-05-03 at 1.58.02 PM.png

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2315https://forum.robofont.com/post/2315Fri, 03 May 2019 17:59:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Component in background layers not visible on Fri, 03 May 2019 19:31:30 GMT]]>Is the component linked to that same layer? Now that ufo3 supports layers, each layer is completely independent and you can't place components across different layers:(

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2316https://forum.robofont.com/post/2316Fri, 03 May 2019 19:31:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Component in background layers not visible on Sat, 04 May 2019 15:49:57 GMT]]>this is a common catch when switching from RF1 to RF3: in RF3 components refer to glyphs in the same layer, while in RF1 components refer to glyphs in the foreground layer.

the docs have been updated to make this clearer:

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2317https://forum.robofont.com/post/2317Sat, 04 May 2019 15:49:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Component in background layers not visible on Mon, 06 May 2019 16:34:26 GMT]]>@gferreira Ah! Great to know, thank you.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2318https://forum.robofont.com/post/2318Mon, 06 May 2019 16:34:26 GMT