User Guide

FontLab 4

 Note: In Windows you cannot open fonts located in the Windows\Fonts

subdirectory (“Windows” means the actual path where Windows is

installed) — the default directory where Windows stores all the installed

TrueType fonts.

If you open this directory you will see that the fonts' names instead of their

file names appear in the Open dialog box. If you double-click on any font

you will get the Font Preview window instead of the font opening into

FontLab.

To open fonts installed in Windows you must copy the font files

into another directory and open them in FontLab from that

directory. Or you can simply drag-drop the font files from Windows

Explorer into FontLab.

Most Recently Used Fonts

All fonts that you recently opened in FontLab are added to the bottom of

the File menu:

Next time you want them, just select the font file in the File menu and

FontLab will open them.

Opening Fonts with Drag-Drop

The easiest way to open fonts in FontLab is to drag-drop font files from

Windows Explorer. Even if FontLab is not running, you can drag-drop files

onto its icon on the desktop or on the quick bar to run FontLab with those

fonts.