User Guide

Steps to modifying your font
1. Open a font.
2. Modify it; for example, you can simply change the
weight.
3. Save the file (Optional).
4. Generate an installable font.
5. Install the font.
6. Put it to work!
Opening a font
You start Macromedia Fontographer the same way you
start other applications—by double-clicking the program
icon. In a few seconds, Fontographer’s About box appears.
Choose “Open Font” from the File menu to open one of the
fonts in your System, a folder, a file server, or a disk (or
you can use one of the fonts provided in the Sample Fonts
folder).
The standard file selection dialog works in the normal
fashion, so you can change drives or directories, open a file,
or cancel. You can also specify which types of font file
formats you want to display. On the Macintosh you can
eject disks as well.
Once the selection dialog is open, you can select a font file
by clicking on its name and then “Open,” or simply by
double-clicking on its name.
One or more progress dialogs will appear before
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