User Guide

FontLab 4
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E d i t Mo de
The Edit mode is the most important in FontLab. In this mode you can
modify the contents of all the editing layers.
All operations performed with the edit tool can be undone with the Undo
command of the Edit menu, or just by clicking the Undo button
on the
toolbar at the top of the Glyph Window. You can undo up to 200
operations. All undone operations can be redone with the Redo command
of the Edit menu or with the Redo button
on the toolbar.
In Edit mode you can use eleven different Edit Tools. You can easily choose
one of the tools using the Edit toolbar:
Alternatively you may use the keys from 1 to 9 to quickly select edit tools:
1 Edit
Main tool, used to drag objects on the editing layers
and perform other operations. In the following
chapters we will assume that this tool is active in the
Edit mode.
2 Erase This tool is used to quickly remove unnecessary
nodes.
3 Knife
Tool to insert nodes and break outlines.
4 Magic Wand
Tool to quickly select contours (just click anywhere
near the contour and it is selected).
5,
6,
7
Add Corner,
Add Curve,
Add Tangent
Tools to create new contours or insert nodes.
8 Bezier Drawing
Tool to draw the contour with the Bezier curves.
Rotate,
Scale,
Slant
Tools to quickly transform outlines.