User Guide

fonts are automatically generated in the range 4,000,000 to
4,999,998. If you are a commercial font developer, you
should contact Adobe Systems, Inc. at [phone] for
an allocated font ID. If you do not want your font to have
a unique PostScript ID, enter “0” in this field, and
Fontographer will not assign a unique ID to your font.
Bitmap background
Bitmap fonts (Macintosh)
The Macintosh uses bitmap fonts for screen display.
Bitmap fonts are selected from any application which
understands fonts. Bitmap fonts are stored in the System
file, where they are accessible to all programs. Bitmap
fonts cannot be smoothly scaled, so each outline font
usually will have several bitmap fonts in different sizes for
display purposes.
FONDs (Macintosh)
A FOND is a table that creates the link from the bitmap
font to the outline font. A FOND is automatically
generated by Fontographer whenever a bitmap font is
generated. It contains several important types of
information.
he Macintosh print manager examines the FOND, and if
there is an outline font file available in the System Folder, it
is downloaded to the printer before printing begins. If no
outline font file is found, the bitmap font is used. The
outline font file must be in the System Folder or in the
same folder as the printing application in order to be found
for downloading.
The FOND also links all the bitmap fonts in a family so
that custom-tuned italic or bold faces may be used in place
of inferior derived styles. This component of the FOND is
independent of outline fonts. FONDs also store additional
information, such as character metrics and kerning.
Windows FON (PC)
Windows FON is a Windows-compatible bitmap font that
Fontographer 4.1 allows you to generate. Since these are
standard bitmap fonts, they are limited to sizes between 1
Fontographer User's Manual
C: General information Page #5