User Guide

Juggler to attach the .bmap file to your System. Detach the
file and Fontographer will work normally.
All I did was load an existing font, generate it as a
Windows TrueType, and install it. It displays terribly,
compared to the way it originally looked before I opened
it in Fontographer. How can I make it look good again?
First—in case something got corrupted—select all from
the original font, and copy and paste into a new font. If
paste doesn’t work, try copying one or two rows of the
database at a time. Next you will need to rehint the font as
follows: from the Hints drop-down menu select Vertical
Alignment Zones, click on Recalc, and click OK. Then
select Hint Parameters from the Hints drop-down, click
Recalc, and click OK. Go to the Hints menu and select
Autohint twice to turn it off and back on.
I want to use Fontographer to create my own version of
a non-Roman font. Why can’t I load an entire 2-Byte
font into Fontographer?
2-Byte fonts contain tens of thousands of characters.
Fontographer 4.1 has a limit of 8,192 characters. You will
need to create more than one database/font generation in
order to get all the characters you need. You can access
characters above 256 in Windows via Uni-code. Get a
copy of the “Unicode Standard” book from Addison-
Wesley. You will need to purchase either an Operating
System such as “Japanese MS-Windows” or find a
keyboard driver and an editor which support your Unicode
characters. Try Eastern Language Systems at (801) 377-
4558, or Gamma at [phone] for more information.
You’ll need a special MS-Windows driver from Microsoft
to let your keyboard access the Unicode characters.
Windows 95 recognizes the entire Unicode book, but
Windows 3.1 only recognizes ANSI Unicode values.
There are no special tools to do this—you’ll have to do it
manually by highlighting position 256 and then selecting
Next char from the View menu to add characters above
256.
Fontographer 4.1 for Mac has a built-in Unicode font
encoding option that allows you to paste glyphs into 2,147
pre-numbered Unicode slots. This makes life a lot easier
for those who are using standard systems such as Cyrillic,
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