User Guide

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4. When you are editing control points of a Bezier curve press the SHIFT
key before clicking the button to keep the direction of the control
vector unchanged.
5. If you are moving a control point of a curve with a sharp connection,
press the
ALT key to temporarily change the connection type to
smooth, so that the adjacent control vector will be collinear
Do not forget that you can press the ‘`’ key at any time to get an instant
high-quality preview of the glyph outline as it will print:
Normal outline High-quality preview
Outline Echo
If you want to see how the outline looked before you moved a node, switch
on the Echo mode. Open the Glyph page of the Options dialog box and
switch on this option:
This is how editing field will look when echo mode is on: