User Guide

FontLab 4
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View Options
Select the desired size of glyph cell in the combo box. Possible sizes vary
from 16x16 up to 64x64 pixels. Smaller cells occupy less space but hide
details. If you select the smallest size (16x16) you will not be able to see the
additional marks which are visible in cells at larger sizes.
A sample of the different cell sizes:
16x16 24x24 32x32 48x48 64x64
Template Options
Use the check boxes to switch on or off the cell captions and the template
in the empty cells. Use the Choose font buttons to select the fonts that
appear in the caption and as templates in the empty cells.
If you switch on the option Use FontLab template font to preview
template images FontLab will use its own bitmap font to show templates.
The FontLab template font contains several thousand glyphs that cover
almost all Unicode ranges except CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
glyphs. We recommend using the FontLab template font when developing
a Unicode font that is intended to support multiple (non-Asian) languages
and codepages.
Use template image as a background layer when creating new glyphs
With this option FontLab will put the bitmap character from the Font
window template into the bitmap background layer of a newly created
glyph. This serves as an excellent reference of the glyph shape, especially
for complex scripts.
Show additional information in the glyphs cells
Allows FontLab to preview glyph property information in glyph cells. This
information is very useful if you want to take a brief look at your font and
see the state of the glyphs. The two following options give you more
detailed control over this feature.