User Guide

2. Set the Distance to 1000 and the Point to Basepoint
and press Return or click OK.
This tells the Perspective tool that the image you see in
the Outline Window is being viewed as if you are 1000 em
units away from the Basepoint.
3. Choose “Select All” from the edit menu.
4. Choose “Set Basepoint” from the Points menu.
Your basepoint just moved to the center of the
square/circle, which is defined as the perspective
point in this example.
5. Choose Copy from the Edit menu. You will paste
this copy later in this example.
6. Click and hold the mouse on the origin line (the line
that extends from the bottom of the window to the
top if the window along the left side of the character).
7. Drag the mouse to the right while holding down the
shift key.
As you drag the mouse you will notice that the information
bar looks something like this:
8. Continue dragging to the right until the number
underneath the reads -90.
You have just rotated the selected points by -90 degrees in
the XZ Plane. You can also think of it as rotating around
the Y axis.
9. Choose Paste from the Edit menu. You now can
apply the next transformation to the copy of the
original.
10. Click down with the mouse on the baseline.
11. Now drag the mouse up while holding down the
shift key until the number under the symbol
reads 90.
The character in the Outline Window should now look
Fontographer User's Manual
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