User Guide

FontLab 4
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Merging Fonts
With the Fonts panel you can also merge fonts – append all the glyphs
from one font to another. During this process FontLab will try to keep
hinting information, composite glyphs and kerning pairs. FontLab will also
try to keep the Unicode indexes and names of the appended glyphs. If
copied glyphs have names that already exist in the destination font,
FontLab will add a suffix with a number to the name.
To merge fonts:
1. Open the two fonts you want to merge.
2. Open the Fonts panel.
3. Activate the font to which you want to append glyphs – double-click
the font name in the Fonts panel.
4. In the Fonts panel select the font from which you want to append
glyphs.
5. Click the Append button in the Fonts panel toolbar.
Merging fonts is very useful when you have several fonts that cover
different scripts and want to combine them into one big Unicode font.
Smaller fonts are easier to manage and open/save.
To keep your font project intact FontLab offers some workspace
management functions: