User Guide

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Fontographer: Macromedia’s outline font editor designed
to simplify the creation of high-quality fonts, logos, and other
intricate PostScript artwork.
Generate: To create a character or set of characters so
that they can be viewed on the screen or printed. Usually a
bitmap font and a PostScript font is generated for each font,
but with outline font formats, you only need to generate one
font file.
Hints: Information embedded to enhance the appearance
of characters printed or imaged at low resolutions (72-600
dpi). ATM and TrueType can take advantage of hints to
render more uniformly shaped screen fonts across the
character set.
Hints layer: The layer in the character’s Outline Window
that displays hint information.
Italic: Best used to set off quotes, special phrases, and
foreign words, italic letters have a redesigned structure that
allows them to slant to the right. The first italic type was
designed by Aldus Manutius in AD 1501 and was based on
the handwriting style of that time.
Justified text: Text that lines up at both the left and right
margins. Also known as “fully justified.”
Kerning: Moving pairs of letters either closer together or
farther apart to adjust and improve the space between them.
Kerning pairs: Combinations of character pairs where the
space between them has been modified to improve
readability.
Keystroke: A single pressing of a key on the keyboard.
Layers palette: The window of layers within the Outline
Window.
Leading: The space, measured from baseline to baseline,
added between successive rows of text in a document.
Left justified: Type that is aligned with its left margin. Also
called “flush left.”
Linotype 100/300: High-resolution typesetting systems.
Megabyte: A measuring unit; 1,048,576 bytes; denoted by
Fontographer User's Manual
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