User Guide

Editing Fonts
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S o r t i n g Gl y p h s
Sometimes you may want to sort the glyphs in a font file in some order
other than their current order. There are two common reasons to do this:
1. You may need to sort glyphs to optimize a font’s performance – if you
place glyphs that are used most often at the beginning of the glyph
collection in some cases it may improve performance.
2. You may need to sort glyphs according to some logical sequence. Some
programs (for example, Adobe InDesign) have a “glyph insert” feature
that shows the collection of glyphs sorted exactly as it is in the font file.
Please note that sorting of the glyphs has no effect on glyph encoding or
names.
To sort the glyphs right-click the Font window and choose one of the
options in the Sort submenu of the context menu:
This is the list of sorting options:
By name Glyphs are sorted by their names in ascending order.
By Unicode Glyphs are sorted by the assigned Unicode indexes in ascending
order. Glyphs that don’t have Unicode indexes are stored at the
end of the glyph collection.
By encoding Glyphs are sorted according to the currently selected encoding
table. This option allows you to customize the sorting order using
the definition encoding tables.
To preview the result of sorting, switch the Font window to the Index mode
by clicking this button:
in the Font window toolbar. You must be in
Index mode to see the sequence of glyphs.