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This allows you to quickly and easily build a family
containing Plain, Bold, Italic, and BoldItalic fonts. If you use
Fontographer to create four styled fonts of the same
typeface, Style Merger can merge the four separate fonts
into one family, thus saving space in your font menu.
Before you run Style Merger, generate any fonts you want
to include in your family (see Chapter 7). For this example,
we started with these font files:
Now let’s run Style Merger. It is so easy to use that the
complete process takes only four steps.
To create a font family with Style Merger:
1. Double-click on Style Merger’s icon.
Style Merger’s main window appears.
2. Click on the button marked “Plain” and then choose
the bitmap or TrueType file that contains the Plain
style of your font (“Nova-Normal.bmap” in this
example).
3. Press the applicable buttons and then choose the
appropriate bitmap font files for your Bold, Italic,
and BoldItalic faces.
4. Press the Save Family button and OK the dialog to
save your new family. You can even change the
name of the suitcase file if you like. That’s all there
is to it!
Fontographer User's Manual
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