User Guide

Move palettes with windows when checked, locks the
positions of the palettes with respect to the window frame.
So if you always place your tool palette one inch in from the
left of the Outline Window, and two inches down from the
top, this preference will make sure that’s where the palette
stays, even when you move the window around on the
screen, or switch from one Outline Window to another.
Dialog box
Remember dialog box positions when checked, tells
Fontographer to open up each dialog box at the same place
where that particular dialog box was last positioned. This is
a handy way to have different dialogs appear in different
places, rather than always centered in the screen.
Remember dialog box values when checked, will cause
Fontographer to remember all the values of all the controls
in each dialog box (even if you quit Fontographer and start
it up later). This is a time-saver for those dialogs where you
frequently have to enter the same values, or choose the
same settings.
Defaults
This button is a fast way to throw away all of your
Preference customizations, and start again with
Fontographer’s “out of the box” defaults for everything.
Font blending—the technical details
Font Blending, introduced earlier in the section “Blend Fonts
to create new fonts” in Chapter 2, is a very easy, intuitive,
and powerful feature of Fontographer. For casual use, you
don’t have to know much about it. For more industrial-
strength use, however, there are some technical issues you
might want to know about. Mastering a few key concepts
will allow you to get the most out of Font Blending.
Fontographer’s Font Blending, or “interpolation,” allows you
to take two extreme variants of a typeface, then
automatically generate any number of intermediate
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