User Guide

Editing Fonts
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Generating Names
This operation is the opposite of the one described in the previous section.
If you select the Generate Names command in the Glyph > Glyph Names
menu, FontLab will use the name-Unicode database to automatically find
names for glyphs whose Unicode indexes are in the database.
Note that if more than one name is linked to the Unicode index, FontLab
will use the one that is first in the database.
If some of the glyphs don’t have any Unicode indexes, FontLab will try to
keep their names unchanged. Use the following option in the dialog box to
control this feature: