User Guide

Alt-click on the character in the character display area, and
its corresponding spreadsheet column will adjust itself to be
directly underneath that character.
One important thing to remember about the spreadsheet
area is that you don’t have to use it. Some people are
much more visually oriented, and they get dismayed by
fields of flashing numbers. That is why we made sure
everything is available interactively. If you don’t want to
fiddle with tables of numbers, feel free to completely ignore
the spreadsheet. On the other hand, be aware that some of
our more production-oriented font development people have
told us that they can create between 400 and 500 kerning
pairs an hour, with their hands never leaving the keyboard.
So see which method works best for you, and don’t worry
about the other.
Importing Metrics
When you open up an existing PostScript font,
Fontographer automatically includes its spacing information,
because it is located in the PostScript file. So the character
widths and offsets which appear in the Metrics Window are
the actual values from the font. However, Fontographer
does not automatically load the font’s kerning table. This is
because the kerning information is found in a different file,
Fontographer User's Manual
5: Metrics: Spacing and Kerning Page #15