User Guide

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Copying widths
The Copy Widths command in the Edit menu is a quick way
to select a bunch of characters in the Font Window, and
then copy and paste their widths over a selection of other
characters, without altering anything else in those other
characters.
More powerful spacing and kerning commands
Up until now, we’ve been discussing mostly manual ways
of adjusting and creating metrics. Fontographer has some
really cool automatic ways to do metrics. The metrics
commands, located in the Metrics menu, range from
completely easy and automatic to very technical and
extremely powerful. Or, to use a different analogy, it can be
the difference between flying a kite and flying the space
shuttle; it sort of depends upon what you want to do.
Set Width
Set Width is a straightforward and easy way to adjust the
widths of lots of characters at once.
Set Width works with the current selection. So if you are in
the Font Window, simply select all the characters you want
to change, and then bring up Set Width. You can simply
replace each character’s width with a new one, or you can
increase or decrease the existing widths. This is an easy
way to take an entire font, and quickly make the spacing
five percent looser, for example.
Equalize Sidebearings
Sometimes you will want a character’s left sidebearing to
equal its right sidebearing, for the sake of vertical
alignment. Numbers frequently appear in tabular form, and
Fontographer User's Manual
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