User Guide

FontLab 4

Appending Glyphs to the Font

Instead of the Edit > Paste command you can use the Append command

from the Font window context menu to add glyphs from the Clipboard to

the font.

When FontLab appends glyphs, it respects the glyph names and Unicode

indexes, so on the first attempt glyphs will be placed in the expected code

positions in the font.

Here is an example. Your first font contains Latin glyphs but has no Cyrillic

glyphs. A second font is a Cyrillic font with the matching style and you

want to add Cyrillic support to the first font.

1. Select the Cyrillic glyphs in the second font (this will be easy if you

select the 1251-Cyrillic codepage or the Cyrillic Unicode range) and

copy them to the Clipboard.

2. Return to the first font; right-click the Font window; and click on the

Append command in the context menu:

3. The Cyrillic glyphs will be appended to the font with their correct

Unicode indexes and names, so you will not have to re-map the font.