User Guide

FontLab 4
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Extremes
This command is the equivalent of the Nodes at extremes outline action
that was described in the “Glyph Window” chapter. Use it to automatically
insert nodes at curves’ extreme points as is required by the Type 1
specification.
Remove Overlap
This action removes overlapping parts of the glyph’s outline. It also sets the
direction of all the contours to counterclockwise (as it required by the Type
1 specification). Use this transformation as the final step to prepare glyph
outlines for hinting.
Several examples of this transformation:
Make Master
This transformation takes three known masters of a four-master Multiple
Master font and calculates the fourth master. It uses a simple algorithm of
linear extrapolation, so the results are not usually precise. But they may
give important information about the proportions of the fourth master, so
you can get a close approximation of what the fourth master should look
like.