User Guide

Arrange
Arrange allows you four choices when you are working
with referenced or composite characters. It also can be
used when you’re reordering paths in font blending, or
when you’re creating a multiple master font.
Bring to Front
This item brings a selected object all the way to the front
layer.
Send to back
This item sends a selected object all the way to the back
layer.
Bring forward
This item brings selected objects forward by one layer.
Send backward
This item sends a selected object back one layer.
Font Info
In the top of the dialog you will see the name of the current
font and its style. Next you will see the encoding options. If
you choose “ Adobestandard character encoding” from the
Encoding box, Fontographer displays and stores a font with
Adobe encoding. Do not check this option if your fonts
have all the upper 128 characters defined.
All the numbers in this dialog are in em square units. The
Ascent and Descent default to a sum of 1,000 units for a
PostScript font, or 2,048 for a TrueType font (refer to
Chapter 7, Generating and Exporting Fonts).
Since a PostScript underline is accomplished by defining a
stroked line a certain distance from the bottom of the
character, the Underline position entry allows you to
change the distance between this stroked underline and the
characters above it. The default indicates that this line will
be drawn below the baseline. The Underline width indicates
Fontographer User's Manual
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