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Hints and Guidelines Transformation
Hints transformation actions let you automate some hinting actions:
Remove hints/guides
Lets you remove hints and links or guidelines
Autohint
Automatically generates hints
Convert to instructions
Converts Type 1 hints to editable visual TrueType
instructions
Autoreplace
Automatically generates a hint replacement program
Convert to links
Converts all hints to links
Convert to hints
Converts all links to hints
Drop TT Hints
Removes all TrueType hints, visual or imported
Remove hints/guides
Use this action to remove hints and links or guidelines in selected glyphs.
This command is the equivalent of the Remove Hints and Remove Guides
actions that were described in the “Glyph Window” chapter.
Autohint
Analyses a glyph’s outline and generates hints for the glyph. This action
uses autohinting options that can be set in the Type 1 page of the Options
dialog box. Please refer to the page 331 for a description of the autohinting
options.
Convert to instructions
Use this action to convert Type 1 hints to the editable TrueType visual
instructions. Do not forget to prepare the outlines of the glyphs for
TrueType hinting using the Convert to TrueType transformation action.
You can find a detailed description of this process in the “Hinting” chapter.