User Guide

Hinting
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If you press the right mouse button in the free space of the Glyph Window
edit field you will see a popup menu:
The commands available in this menu are:
Cancel
Closes the menu.
Reset Program
Removes all instructions
Remove Horizontal
Commands
Removes all horizontal commands including delta
instructions
Remove Vertical
Commands
Removes all vertical commands including delta instructions
Remove Final Deltas
Removes all final delta instructions
Remove All Deltas Removes all delta instructions (middle delta and final delta)
Convert Hints to
Instructions
Tries to convert Type 1 hints and links to visual hints. You
can use this command as a kind of TrueType autohinting. If
a glyph doesn’t have any Type 1 hints, use the Tools > Hints
> Autohint command to generate them. Follow with the
“Convert Hints...” command to generate a TrueType hinting
program for the glyph.
Autohinting options Opens the Autohinting options dialog box that lets you
customize the process of converting Type 1 hints to
TrueType instructions. This dialog box is described below.