User Guide

FontLab User Interface
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We’ll discuss navigation in the Font window later, in the Editing Fonts
chapter, so let’s talk about the Font window command bar, which is located
at the top of the window:
Actually, the command bar is not fixed to any location in the Font window;
you can drag it to the bottom area or just leave it floating around:
On the command bar you can easily find a button on the left, which is a
duplicate of the File > Font Info command, which is described later in this
manual.
Right of the buttons there is a combo box, which allows you to change the
information that appears in the character cell’s captions:
Next is a combo box that allows you to change the encoding table of the
current font:
We will talk about encodings later, but you could choose a couple different
ones from the combo box and see how the Font window changes.
At the right of the encoding list there are four buttons that allow a choice of
encoding modes. Again, a detailed description of this follows. Just a few
words here: any glyph in the font may be identified by a name, Unicode
index or just its order in the glyph table. Four buttons in the command bar
allow you to choose one of four modes: Names, Unicode Ranges,
Codepages or Index.
The last button controls the saving of custom encoding file.
That’s all about the Font window for now so let’s open the Glyph window