User Guide

FontLab 4
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Shift
This action shifts the outline of the glyph in the vertical and/or horizontal
direction. Here is a sample of a font with some glyphs shifted in the vertical
direction:
You can also shift glyphs in the vertical direction in the metrics mode of the
Metrics window: hold the
SHIFT key and drag the glyph.
Use the Shift the Mask Layer control to shift the mask layer together with
the outline or to leave it untouched.
Mirror
Here is the result of this simple transformation:
The letters in the word “Sample” were mirrored horizontally and the letters
in the word “text” – vertically.