User Guide

the pencil tool to remove or add them.
That’s all there is to editing your bitmaps. The majority of
the time Fontographer creates perfectly acceptable
bitmaps, so you only need this option if you’re a real
perfectionist .
The central edit area
The central edit area is the space where the bitmap image
appears. This is where all your bitmap drawing and editing
takes place. The bitmap image includes pixels which are
simply dots that may be highlighted to create a pattern on
the screen. Behind the pixel image is the outline of the
character to guide you in choosing the pixels that you want
to turn on or off.
The Info bar shows the offset and width values for the
character. The offset value will change to correspond to
any changes made to the bitmap character’s offset. The
width value is the character’s advance width in pixels and
cannot be changed in the Bitmap Window. Changing the
width in the Outline Window will update the Bitmap Window
if you press the Recalc from outline button.
Ascent and descent values
The ascent is the number of points between the baseline
and the top boundary of the em square. In the font pictured
here, the ascent is 19 pixels from the baseline.
Consequently, the descent is the amount of pixels between
the baseline and the lowermost boundary of the em square.
The descent for this point size is five pixels.
The Bitmap Window in Fontographer 4.1 includes
Fontographer User's Manual
4: Editing Bitmaps Page #5