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[. . . ] Fontographer User's Manual
Contents Introduction: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
Introducing Fontographer How to get the most out of your Fontographer materials
Tips icon
Before you begin
Getting started Read me. . . Registering your software to receive technical support Network Copy Protection
Chapter One: Modifying Your Fonts
Steps to modifying your font Opening a font Changing the character's weight Naming your font Saving your work Generating your font Installing the font Using the font Creating an oblique font
Skewing multiple characters
Creating a fraction using composite characters
Unlinking a reference character
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Creating a ligature Changing the character width Creating a condensed character or font Setting the basepoint
Chapter Two: Creating New Fonts
Autotracing
Tracing an image Advanced tracing options
Curve fit Allow curve fit errors Balance lines Eliminate close points Make straight lines Look for cusps Treat nearly flat paths as straight lines Find extrema points
Transformation options
Flip Move Rotate Scale Scale uniformly Skew Multiple transformations 3-D transformations using the Transform dialog
Guidelines
Setting guidelines Setting guidelines from the Font Info dialog Adding new guidelines
Hiding guidelines
Snap to guides
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Creating a stroked font
Outline vs. stroked characters Setting stroke attributes
End caps and joins Expand stroke
Clean Up Paths
Creating calligraphic characters
Calligraphic tutelage from Judith Sutcliffe
Creating variable weight characters Blend Fonts to create new fonts
When things go wrong. . .
Jonathan Hoefler sez. . .
Chapter Three: Altering Outlines
Altering a logo
Pasting EPS outlines from the clipboard
Paths and points
Closed paths Path direction and fills Normal fill Even/odd fill Correct path direction Reverse path direction
Types of points
Curve points Corner points Tangent points Selecting multiple points Changing a point type Inserting points Duplicating points
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Power duplicating Removing points
Splitting a path
Splitting line segments Joining points Adding Serifs Merging points Moving a point
Demagnified move
Keyboard commands to move points: Accurate point placement
Point and path preferences
Path display Point display Show and hide control points Editing and placing BCPs
BCP principles
Dragging a control point's BCPs Dragging a curve point's BCPs Dragging a corner point's BCPs Dragging a tangent point's BCPs Retracting BCPs
Auto Curvature
Chapter Four: Editing Bitmaps
Using the Bitmap Window
The Bitmap Window Editing a bitmap The central edit area Ascent and descent values Offset and width values Visible layers Tools in the Bitmap Window
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Undo and Redo
Changing bitmap views
Enlarging using the View Menu Switching characters in the Bitmap Window
Next and previous character Next and previous point size
When should you recalculate bitmaps?
Preserving your original bitmaps
Chapter Five: Metrics: Spacing and Kerning
Spacing Pair kerning Auto Spacing Auto Kerning The Metrics Window
Character display The spreadsheet area
Importing Metrics
Clearing kerning pairs
Exporting Metrics
The Fontographer Metrics file Copying widths
More powerful spacing and kerning commands
Set Width Equalize Sidebearings
Advanced Metrics operations
Set Metrics Assisted Metrics
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Metrics Assistance Kerning Assistance Advanced Auto Spacing Advanced Auto Kerning
Chapter Six: Printing
Sample text Sample file PostScript file Key map Kerning pairs Characters
The print header
Chapter Seven: Generating and Exporting Fonts
Before you do anything. . . Easy or Advanced?
Macintosh fonts
PostScript Type 1
The PostScript ID Field
TrueType
Include vertical and horizontal hints Include diagonal hints Dropout prevention Character mapping
PostScript Type 3 Other Type 3 Formats None Encoding Options When should you use Hints? [. . . ] This time, choose the Bold style, which in this example is "NovaBold. " Once you have accepted the file selection dialog box, the name "Nova-Bold" appears next to the Bold button, and the Save Family button becomes active. This is because you could save the family at this point and be finished. This is useful when you don't have all four styles to merge into a family. Style Merger bolds the Italic button next, so just choose "Nova-Oblique" as the italic face, and "NovaBoldOblique" for the bold italic face. If you look at the Style Merger window, you can see that each style button has a name beside it, indicating that you can build a complete family now. And sure enough, Style Merger has bolded the Save Family button to tell you to do so. When you click on that button, a dialog box appears asking where you want to save the family and what it should be called.
Typically, Style Merger suggests names like "Nova-Normal. fam. " This will be the name of the suitcase file Style Merger creates. The part of the name before the period is what the font will be called in your font menus (it becomes the name of the FOND resource). For instance, if you accept the name "Nova-Normal. fam, " Style Merger creates a file named "Nova-Normal. fam, " and when you install that new family, you'll see "Nova-Normal" in your font menus. If you want to see just "Nova" you should tell Style Merger to save the family as "Nova. fam. " After you press "OK" in the standard file dialog box, Style Merger builds the family and saves it. Then it cleans out all the font selections, and is ready to build another family. The window now looks exactly as it did when the program first started. To do
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If you just want to build one family, you can quit now. To do so, type "Command-q, " choose "Quit" from the File menu, or simply click in the close box of Style Merger's window. If you want to create more families, you can leave Style Merger running to make some more. Things you should know about Style Merger Style Merger won't prevent you from choosing incorrect faces for particular styles. For instance, you could be a wise guy and tell Style Merger to use Nova-Bold for the italic face. Your family will work just the way you set it up, but it would be a little confusing. It could be called a "dysfunctional family, " or one that boldly goes where no italic has gone before.
Important: Please, do yourself a favor and always make
sure the fonts you use to build families with are not installed. Always close any fonts installed with Suitcase, Master Juggler, Font Porter or whatever you installed them with; then build your family and reinstall your fonts. If you are using Style Merger and notice that the little suitcase icons change from capital "A's" to "B's", that means that the font you have just chosen was already installed. [. . . ] Since script is difficult to read, its use should be limited to a few lines at a time. Early script typefaces were developed in the sixteenth century, and were based upon formal cursive handwriting. Scroll bar: The window bars containing arrows that allow the document to be moved so that other parts of it become visible. Set-width: The width of a letter and its surrounding space; the space needed to set a line of text in a specific typeface. [. . . ]
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