User Guide

Making OpenType Fonts
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O p e n T y pe P a ne l s
FontLab provides two panels that deal with OpenType features: the
OpenType panel and the OpenType Features page of the Preview panel.
OpenType Panel
In FontLab you can see OpenType features in the special OpenType panel.
To open the panel use the Window > OpenType panel command. Below is
the illustration of the panel that appears if you open the Palatino Linotype
font (pala.ttf):
At the top of the panel you find a toolbar, at the left – a list of the features
with two buttons below and a split field at the right. The top part of the
field contains the feature definition text for the feature selected in the list
and the bottom part contains the global definition data, which usually is a
definition of the glyph classes.
You can use the separator bar between top and bottom panels to adjust
their relative vertical sizes.