User Guide

Appendix A
Tips
We’d like to share several tricks we’ve learned while using
Fontographer. Some of these are just reminders, others are
shortcuts to solving typical problems. If you have additions,
please send them to us.
Minimize the total number of points when drawing
characters. Smaller characters draw faster, take up less
space in the printer and on your disk, and usually generate
smoother characters. Most standard roman characters can
be described in fewer than sixty points. “Clean Up Paths”
makes sure your characters include the optimal number of
points.
Images that are imported or pasted into the Template layer
are automatically sized to fit the em square.
To maintain the original size of the image when pasting into
the layer, hold down the Option or Alt key when you paste
or import the image. The size of the image you see
depends on the magnification level in the window.
Open a line by using Option or Alt-knife to click on a point
and remove the section of line between the adjacent points
on either side of it. You might do this to open a sans serif
character so a serif foot can be glued onto it.
To pull a BCP out of a point, select the point, press the
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