User Guide

FontLab 4
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Buttons on the toolbar mean:
Open the menu. The contents of the menu are described below
Find the glyph or class. When the cursor in the feature-editing panel is on
the glyph name you can click on this button to quickly find the glyph in the
Font or Glyph windows. C
TRL+Right-click on the glyph name does the same.
If the cursor is on the class name FontLab will try to find the class in the
bottom editing field or in the Class panel.
Rename the glyph. Position the cursor on the glyph name and click this
button to open the glyph rename dialog box, described in one of the
following sections
Compile the feature definitions.
Open the OpenType Features Preview panel.
Add an anchor. This button is enabled only when the Glyph window is open
and active.
When you click on the button you will see a popup menu:
Commands in the menu mean:
Reset features Removes all feature definition information and allows you to
start making a new set of features.
Open features
Opens an existing feature-definition file. With this feature you
can apply a previously created feature-definition to different
fonts. During import FontLab automatically separates features
into individual records and places the class definitions in the
bottom editing control.
Save features
Saves the current set of feature definitions to a file.
Close panel
Closes the OpenType panel