User Guide

FontLab 4
330
Hint Commands
The Tools > Hints & Guides menu contains several commands related to
hints:
Remove Hints
Removes vertical or horizontal or all hints and links.
This command is duplicated in the rulers context menu.
Autohinting
Automatically generates hints for the current glyph.
Autohinting options can be adjusted in the Type 1 page
of the Options dialog box.
Autoreplacing Automatically generates a hint replacement program for
the current glyph. Refer to the “Hinting” chapter for
more information about hint replacement.
Convert Hints to Links
Converts all hints to links
Convert Links to Hints
Converts all links to hints
Same commands are duplicated in the Glyph Window context menu
(which appears if you right-click in an empty area of the editing field)