User Guide

Contents
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CONTENTS 3
INTRODUCTION 15
About this Manual 16
System Requirements 18
FONTLAB USER INTERFACE 19
Basic Terms 20
Getting Started 24
Customizing FontLab’s User Interface 26
Customizing Toolbars 27
Customizing Menus 29
Customizing Individual Items 30
Converting a Menu to a Toolbar 32
Customization of the Keyboard 33
Links to External Programs 35
Faster Method to Customize Commands 36
FontLab Windows 37
Font Window 38
Glyph Window 40
Metrics Window 44
Panels 48
EDITING FONTS 51
Opening Fonts 52
Font Formats 55
Import Options 56
Creating a New Font 61
The Font Window 62
Encoding Modes 66
Characters, Codes and Glyphs 67
Names Mode 71
The Unicode Standard 74