User Guide
FontLab 4
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When the Type 1 hinting tool is active, the contents of the Glyph window
change:
Here is a brief description of what appears in the editing field:
Thick green lines
Currently active set of stem hints
Thin gray lines
All other hints
Yellow areas Overlapping zones of hints
Black contour
Active part of contour
Green “HR” marks
Hint-substitution points
Yellow marks Startpoints of contours with their number
Arrows
Direction of contours
There are active and inactive contour segments and active and inactive
stem hints. Active hints work when the active part of an outline is
processed by the rasterizer. The hint replacement points separate contour
segments from each other.
You can select different active parts of the outline by clicking on the
outline segment that you want to make active using the left mouse button.
The active segment always appears in black and the hints that apply to that
segment appear in green.