User Guide

FontLab 4
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Most of the page is covered by the names list:
The Columns of the list are:
NID
Name ID – code of the name (this is what we put in the [name: x] comment
on ‘x’ place).
PID Platform ID – platform identified. Could be 0, 1, 2 or 3.
EID,
LID
Encoding and Language IDs – see the OpenType name table specification
Text Content of the name table record. May include Unicode characters after the
‘\’.
Click on the caption of the column to sort name records by one of the
values.
Below the list is a set of controls that let you define records.
Above the list there is a toolbar that you can use to modify the names table;
add or remove name records; or import custom name records from the
“English” data:
Import names from the basic set of names defined in other pages of
the Names section
Add a name record
Remove the currently selected name record
Remove all custom name records