User Guide

If you already know everything about outlines, paths, and
points you can skip this chapter. If not... or you’re just
curious... read on.
Altering a logo
This quick-step exercise shows you how to import an image
from a drawing program into a character slot in
Fontographer so you can access it with a keystroke. You
will make some changes to the logo, and then change its
width by scaling the image. For practice, import any
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) image created in a drawing
program like Macromedia FreeHandor Adobe Illustratoror
use the art file, torch.eps, provided on your Fontographer
disks.
1. Open a font in Fontographer, and from the Font
Window select and open a character‘s Outline
Window.
You can delete the character outline from its Outline
Window if you need to, by choosing “Select All” from the
Edit menu, and then pressing the delete key.
2. Select “Import” from the File menu and then
select “EPS” from the submenu.
3. Select the PostScript file named “Torch.eps” from
the Fontographer Sample Files folder or directory,
or choose your own Macromedia FreeHand or
Adobe Illustrator EPS file.
Fontographer automatically imports the image into the
character’s Outline Window. The image will be scaled to fit
between the character’s baseline and ascent lines.
If you choose Preview from the View menu, you can see
that the fills are automatically transferred to the typeface.
Important: If you have trouble getting a single character
logo to display on screen and/or print, you may need to
break the character into parts that can be placed into
multiple key-strokes. For more information, check
MacroFacts at [phone] for a TechNotes.
That’s all there is to it. If you’d like to modify the image
further, you can. The rest of this chapter is bursting with
Fontographer User's Manual
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