User Guide

Hinting controls
Fontographer lets you control hints from two places: the
Hints layer of the Outline Window, and the Hints menu.
To see actual hints, open an Outline Window, and make
the Hints layer visible by checking the box next to its name
in the layers palette. Here is an example of a character
with hints:
The small arrows indicate the presence of hints.
Autohint
Hinting in Fontographer is always in one of two modes:
automatic, or manual. Automatic means that Fontographer
will recalculate hints automatically when you edit character
outlines. Manual means that you have actually edited some
hints. Manual mode tells Fontographer not to replace your
manually-edited hints with its own. Fontographer
automatically switches to manual after you have edited hints.
Automatic or manual hinting varies from character to
character. Whenever you open a PostScript font,
Fontographer reads in the hints from that font, and turns
autohinting off. Note that Fontographer hasn’t made up any
Fontographer User's Manual
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