User Guide

additional information about manipulating points.
Pasting EPS outlines from the clipboard
On the Macintosh, you can also paste FreeHand and
Illustrator images directly into the character edit window
(without saving the file as an EPS).
While you are in FreeHand or Illustrator, select the
graphics you wish to copy, then press the Option or
Control key and select “Copy” from the Edit menu.
In Fontographer, select a character slot and “Paste” in the
image.
The path data will be pasted into your character so it fits
between the ascent and the descent. Holding down the
Option key while pasting the EPS file (or bitmap image) will
retain the image’s size at the moment you copied it.
Pressing Shift-Option-Paste will fit the EPS file (or bitmap
image) between the baseline and the ascent. Pressing
Shift+Alt+Paste will have the same effect for a bitmap on
the PC.
Paths and points
Paths are made of straight or curved line segments which
are either connected or unconnected. Characters like the
lowercase “i” and “j” are composed of two separate non-
over-lapping paths: the dots and the stems. When you join
the endpoints of a path, you’ve closed that path.
Important: All typographically correct paths need to be
closed.
If you already know how paths work, you can skip this
Fontographer User's Manual
3: Altering Outlines Page #3