User Guide

First of all, thank you for buying our product. Second, thanks
for opening this manual. We hope you’re reading it not
because you’re having trouble, but because you want to
learn more about this exciting program.
Our manuals are written by people who actually use (and
create) Fontographer and who have graphic arts and
typography backgrounds. We’ve tried to be as informative
as possible without being stuffy.
We hope you’ll find every aspect of this program easy:
from our unique approach to learning, to the panoramic
interface of the program itself, and finally, to the actual
process of creating fonts. We want your experience with
Fontographer to be so satisfying and painless that when
you’re through, you’ll agree that this is the best font design
program in the world!
As a matter of fact, Fontographer has been the standard for
professional typeface and logo design since its introduction
in 1986. Before Fontographer, typed images could only be
produced by using complex, expensive, and time-consuming
procedures. With the advent of personal computers
however, typography became attainable to everyone: from
the graphic illustrator to the desktop publisher to the
business executive. And now, Fontographer provides this
capability to you.
So, on with the manual—we hope you enjoy it.
Fontographer 4.1 allows you to generate ATM-compatible
Type 1 fonts, as well as Type 3 PostScript fonts, TrueType
fonts, PICTs and multiple masters on the Macintosh, and
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. You can import EPS
files directly, and use their outlines in the drawing window.
You can also use metrics information from a variety of
sources, and export information to those sources, as well.
Additionally, you can import kerning tables from Adobe
Font Metrics (AFM) and other files. You can also take
advantage of the PostScript graphics you create in
Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator by pasting
them directly into your characters.
Many dialogs in the program give you two options: Easy
and Advanced mode—letting you have total control of the
program if you want it, or allowing you to rely on its simple
Fontographer User's Manual
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