User Guide

You can hide the guides by checking on the Guides layer
checkbox to turn it off or (when the lock icon is locked) by
typing Option-G (Macintosh) or Caps Lock+G (on the PC).
Snap to guides
Choose “Snap to Guides” from the View menu. When
points are within a predetermined distance (you set this
value in the File menu Preferences’ Editing Behavior) from
the guideline, they snap or align to that guideline.
Creating a stroked font
Outline vs. stroked characters
Up until this point in the manual, we have been discussing
outline characters. You create outline characters by
drawing a path around the character’s perimeter. Stroked
characters are constructed by drawing just the centerline
path. PostScript draws these characters by sweeping a pen
along the path. The pen has a width called the stroke
weight which is made up of em units. As PostScript sweeps
Fontographer User's Manual
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