User Guide

size available.
To change to a previous point size:
Choose “Previous Point Size” from the View menu or
press Command-- or Ctrl+-. The next available smaller
point size will automatically replace the character in the
Bitmap Window.
To change to the next point size:
Choose “Next Point Size” from the View menu, or press
Command-= or Ctrl+=. The next available larger point
size will automatically replace the character in the
Bitmap Window.
When should you recalculate bitmaps?
Recalculate bitmaps from the outline when you have edited
bitmap characters and you want to start over. Also, when
editing small point sizes, you can use this to see the results
of hint editing or metrics changes. If parts of the font have
changed, you can recalculate just those changed letters.
Preserving your original bitmaps
Even though you may have modified an existing font’s
outlines, you can still keep the original font’s bitmaps if you
like. This is useful in those instances where you’ve added
some special characters to your font (fractions or accents,
for example). You don’t want to regenerate all the existing
bitmaps, since commercial fonts already have hand-edited
bitmaps in them anyway.
Like everything else it does, Fontographer offers you an
easy way to do this: import any other bitmap font file.
1. Choose “Import” from the File menu in any of
Fontographer’s windows, and then
choose “Bitmaps” from the pop-up menu.
Fontographer presents a standard file dialog that lets you
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