User Guide

FontLab 4
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Font Window
As an exercise lets create a font in order to demonstrate the FontLab
Windows. Use the New command in the File menu or click this button
on the Standard toolbar.
You will see the Font window:
As you can see, this window has a caption with a few buttons and options
and a big table of cells that represent characters and glyphs. Each cell has
a caption that contains glyph identification information: name, Unicode
index or some other data:
Cells can also contain little icons that show properties of glyphs, but more
about that later.
There are no glyphs in the font that we just created, but the Font window
nevertheless shows some pictures in the glyph cells. These are template
images that show which character should be placed in the cell. FontLab has
templates for thousands of characters, so you will usually know where to
place new characters.