User Guide

FontLab 4

O p e n i ng F o nt s

With FontLab you can create new fonts or open existing fonts for

modification. When you open an existing font, however, please be sure that

modifying it does not violate copyright laws: some fonts are copyrighted as

software so it is not legal to change them in any font editor. Carefully read

the license agreement that comes with every font.

You can find two (one serif and one sans-serif) royalty-free, non-

copyrighted fonts that you can use as a basis for your own fonts or

characters in the Sample folder on your CD or on our website

(www.fontlab.com).

Please, note that with FontLab you cannot export fonts that contain more

than 6,400 characters. You can open big fonts, but only a portion of them

can be saved or exported. If you need to work with really big fonts, we

recommend you try our AsiaFont Studio product:

http://www.fontlab.com/html/asiafontstudio.html

To open a font for editing, select the File > Open command, or

click the

button on the toolbar.