User Guide

FontLab 4
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Sketch Mode 347
Moving Points 350
Changing Point Type 350
Removing Points 350
Inserting Points 351
Reversing Contours 351
Selecting Points 352
Moving the Selection 353
Transforming the Selection 353
Selection Operations 354
Breaking and Joining the Sketch Outline 354
Converting to Outline 355
VectorPaint Mode 356
Freehand Select Tool 358
Pen (Contour) Tool 359
Brush Tool 360
VectorPaint Options 362
Line Tool 363
Polygon Tool 364
Ellipse and Rectangle Tools 365
Text Tool 366
Meter Mode 367
Setting Guidelines, Anchors and Sidebearings 369
Outline Operations 370
Interpolation 371
Envelope 375
Curve 378
Set 379
Reversing a Contour’s Direction 380
Rearranging Contours 381
Working with Composite Glyphs 382
Adding a Component 383
Decomposing 384
Component Positioning 384
Component Properties 387
Using the Primitives Panel 388
Importing and Exporting Glyphs 391
Printing a Glyph 393
EDITING FONT METRICS 395
What are Font Metrics? 396