User Guide

FontLab 4
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Outline Appearance
You can view an outline in contoured or filled mode. These modes are
equivalent for all editing operations, but the filled mode is a little bit
slower. However, in the filled mode you always see how the glyph will look
in the resulting font. Switch between modes with the
button on the
Options bar.
Outline mode Preview mode
Smoothed Contour
By default contour is rendered with black color and sometimes it may
result in jaggies:
Optionally you can smooth the contour appearance on screen, which will
result in a much smoother outline appearance: