User Guide

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Outline Actions
You can find the actions described below in the Tools > Outline menu:
H Mirror Makes a mirror transformation in the horizontal direction.
This operation is applicable to a selection or to a whole
outline if nothing is selected.
V Mirror
Makes a mirror transformation in the vertical direction.
This operation is applicable to a selection or to a whole
outline if nothing is selected.
Check
Connections
Analyses an outline and detects the types of connections
between outline primitives (lines and curves)
Reverse All
Contours
Reverses the direction of all contours of the glyph. This
action can be useful if you want to completely convert a
Type 1 glyph to a TrueType glyph. In TrueType and Type 1
format the default direction of the contours are opposite.
Nodes at
extremes
Automatically inserts nodes at the extreme points of
curves. We highly recommend that all curves have nodes
at their extreme points.
Snap to Guides
Move all nodes on to guidelines, hints or grid if they are
sufficiently close to them. This action will “snap” nodes
only to the guiding layers that are currently visible.
Optimize
Optimizes the outline (see the section below)
Expand strokes
Converts contours to brush strokes.
Make Parallel
Path
Creates a contour that is parallel to the existing contour.
See the next section for more information about this and
previous features.
Join All Contours
Joins all open contours in a glyph.
Merge Contours Combines all overlapping parts of the outline. This
operation and the two following operations are applied to
all contours that have at least one node selected. If nothing
is selected, they will be applied to the whole glyph.
Get Intersection
Leaves only areas that are covered by at least two contours
Delete
Intersection
Removes all areas that are covered by more than one
contour.
To TrueType
Curves
Converts all Type 1 (3
rd
-order) curves to TrueType (2
nd
-
order) curves.
To Type 1 Curves
Converts all TrueType (2
nd
-order) curves to Type 1 (3
rd
-
order) curves.