User Guide

Retracting BCPs
As we discussed earlier, you adjust Bezier control handles
by selecting the point they’re attached to, then dragging the
handle. You can also retract the control handles. This is
useful when you have a corner point with unnecessary BCPs.
Auto Curvature
Auto Curvature is the option that instructs the curve point
tool where to put the BCPs and how far to extend their
handles. You can control Auto Curvature from the Points
menu. Auto Curvature is active primarily on curve points,
but corner points can also have Auto Curvature if their
adjacent points are curve points. Auto Curvature allows a
point that’s being moved to automatically update the angle
and length of BCPs. If the adjacent points are also set for
Auto Curvature, their BCPs will also update automatically
as the point is moved. This means that when a point is
moved you will no longer have to adjust BCPs after moving
a point nor will you need to select the adjacent points and re-
edit their BCPs. A BCP with Auto Curvature active will
look different from BCPs without it. Instead of a
square “+”, the BCPs will look more like an “x”.
Fontographer User's Manual
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