User Guide

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Font is bold [OS/2: fsSelection] The Font is defined as bold. Usually this
checkbox is related to the Weight setting, but it is not required. For
example, if you are making a family containing Light and Normal
styles, you may need to mark the Normal style as Bold so you will
not need to split these styles into two separate families.
More styles
Press this button to open a popup menu where you can select one of
the additional font styles. This information is used only by
TrueType fonts, but we recommend you always set it properly to
simplify future font identification.
Style Name
[name: 2] Contains complete style information about the font. We
recommend that you fill in the Weight, Width and Italic data, to
automatically generate this field using the Build Style Name button
and edit this field if necessary.
Build Style
Name
Press this button to automatically generate the Style Name field.
Style names are based on the Width, Weight and Italic information.
Font Name
[name: 6] PostScript name. This name will be used by a PostScript
print driver to reference the font. Do not include spaces in this
name.
Full Name
[name: 4] More detailed font name. It may include spaces as well as
any other characters – this is the name that is exposed to users
when the font is installed in Windows.
Menu Name The name used to access the font in applications. This name must
not include style information (bold, italic or similar). The length of
this field is limited to 31 characters for TrueType or single-master
Type 1 fonts and to 7 characters for Multiple Master fonts. To
ensure that the current Menu name is made properly, press the
Check button.
FOND Name
This name is used by the Mac OS to organize fonts into font
families. Windows does not use it. We recommend you fill in this
name if you plan to port your font to Mac by FontLab for Mac or
TransType.
Build Names
Press this button to automatically generate the Font Name and Full
Name fields. If you are creating a new font we recommend that you
fill in the Family Name field, generate or manually fill in the Style
Name field and press this button to create the Font and Full names.
If necessary you can edit the names later.