User Guide

Chapter Two
Creating New Fonts
Autotracing
Transformation Options
Guidelines
Creating a Stroked Font
Clean Up Paths
Creating Calligraphic Characters
Creating Variable Weight Characters
Blending Fonts to Create New Fonts
Somewhere in the dark recesses of a second-hand
bookstore, there is probably a well-worn and dust-covered
book that contains an old-fashioned typeface no one has
seen for years. Imagine being able to digitize that typeface
and transfer it to your documents. Or how about that logo
you created with a pen or pencil before you ever heard of a
graphics program? What about the beautiful effects that are
created with calligraphy fountain pens? Wouldn’t it be great
if you could use all of these in your word processor? With
Fontographer, any of these scenarios is simple.
Fontographer takes what used to be possible with only pen
and pencil, and puts it into the hands of the desktop designer.
Autotracing
The bitmap option is one of Fontographer’s most advanced
features. Autotracing is probably most useful for tracing
scanned images. Say you have an existing character, logo,
or image that you want to assign to a keystroke. On the
Macintosh, you can scan your image, save it in PICT
format, and place it into your Scrap-book or Clipboard.
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