User Guide

Editing Fonts
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T h e Fo n t Ma p P a ne l
When you work with really big Unicode-encoded fonts, you may need to
have an overview of your whole font. FontLab has a special panel, called
the Font Map, which can represent the entire Unicode code space as a 256 x
256 picture where every pixel represents a double-byte code.
Every pixel row in this picture represents a Unicode page – 256 Unicode
indexes which begin with the same code. For example, codes A700-A7FF
will form one row.
Every pixel in the row represents an individual code.
To open the Font Map panel, use the Font Map panel command in the
Window menu. You will see a panel that consists of the code picture,
toolbar and status bar:
The buttons on the toolbar mean:
Turns on zoom mode
Changes the Font Map to double-byte codepage mode
Updates the contents of the Font Map