User Guide

FontLab 4
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Guidelines Tracking
There is a special feature that lets you modify an outline by moving
guidelines. You switch this feature on in the Glyph page of the Options
dialog box (choose the Options command in the Tools menu to open the
dialog box):
When guidelines tracking is active and you move a guideline a distance not
greater than the Tracking offset parameter all outline nodes that were on
the guideline will be moved with it:
Original outline Same outline after topmost guideline moved up
If you move a global guideline and the Track global guidelines option is
on, then all glyphs of the font that have nodes on this guideline will be
modified. Be careful with this feature because the results of global
guideline tracking are not undoable.