User Guide

generating Type 3 fonts. PostScript is stored very
inefficiently inside the printer, so compression is necessary
to pack as much information into the memory as possible.
Fontographer’s compression scheme generates fonts which
take up one-fifth the space, on the average, of
uncompressed fonts. Nevertheless, a Type 3 compressed
font is still larger than a Type 1 font.
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This option is provided to disable outline font generation. In
the remote instances when you only need a fresh bitmap file,
it is not necessary to regenerate the outline font.
Encoding Options
The encoding of the font is the ordering of its characters.
Version 4.1 of Fontographer has two dialogs which allow
you to set the encoding. The Encoding pop-up in the Font
Info dialog will reorganize the layout of the Font Window to
display the key positions of the encoding you selected. On
the other hand, when you select a different encoding in the
Generate Font Files dialog, Fontographer will output the font
to match the encoding you select—it won’t change the
encoding displayed in the Font Window.
The most commonly-used encodings for the Macintosh are
Macintosh and Adobe Standard. For Windows, the
prevailing choices are Windows/Windows 95 and Adobe
Standard.
Custom encoding allows for the custom naming of
characters. The Character Information dialog (which is
opened by selecting a character and choosing “Selection
Info” from the Element menu) contains a name field which
allows you to change the character name. Custom encoding
becomes the default encoding option any time you change a
character name. Custom character naming is widely used
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