User Guide

Editing Fonts
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Name table export
options
In FontLab you can define a basic set of font names that will
be used if the font is previewed in an English environment.
In addition you can define language-specific names that
appear if the font is used in a system in which the
environment is not English. The list has the following
options:
Choose one of these options to determine which names will
be included in the font.
Export GDEF table
The GDEF table defines glyph types and the position of the
caret inside ligature glyphs. FontLab provides visual tools to
edit this information, so if you want it to appear in the
exported font, leave this option switched on.
Use subroutines to
compress outlines
in OTF fonts
Allow to automatically generate outline subroutines if font is
generated as CFF-flavored. Outline subroutines store
repetitive parts of outlines and allow to reuse with references
from outline definition code.