FontLab VI User Guide»
Note
Last update: 2017-05-23
This Guide is a work in progress.
Table of Contents»
This table of contents covers planned content. Only part of the content is currently available.
Getting Started»
- Preface
- Installation and Requirements
- Updates
- Community
- Keyboard and Mac/Win
- Crash Reporting
- Major New Features
- Other Key Features
- About this User Guide
- Intro
Editing Fonts»
- Opening Fonts
- Creating a New Font
- Font Window
- Glyph Naming, Encoding
- Language Support & Glyphs
- Using the Font Window
- Moving Glyphs
- Copying and Pasting Glyphs
- Creating a New Glyph
- Drawing Glyphs
- Editing Glyphs
- Deleting Glyphs
- Flagging Glyphs
- Searching Glyphs
- Renaming Glyphs
- Unicode-Related Operations:
- Glyph Notes
- Sorting Glyphs
- Working with Multiple Fonts
- Applying Modifications
- Saving the Font
Exporting Fonts»
- Font formats
- Saving vs Exporting
- Before You Export
- Profiles
- Exporting Fonts
- Font Testing Techniques
Glyph Window»
- Glyph Window Contents
- Glyph Window modes
- Selecting a Glyph for Editing
- Units of Measurement
- Round coordinates
- Contours
- Points
- Elements
- Layers
- Guidelines
- Changing the View
- Tools and Operations
- Creating drawings:
- Drawing Tools
- Pen tool
- Rapid tool
- Pencil tool
- Brush tool
- Power Brush
- Ellipse tool
- Rectangle tool
- Guides tool
- Importing artwork
- Autotrace
- Modifying drawings:
FontLab VI for FontLab Studio 5 Users»
Major New Features»
- Sketchboard
- Organizing Font Family
- Overlaying Fonts
- Detecting Element References
- Element Stickers
- Power Brush
- Bitmap Effects
- Round coordinates
- Color Outlines
- Power Nudge
- Tunni Lines
- Genius Nodes
- Smart Corners
- Fill tool
- Magnet tool
- Collaboration
- Comparing Fonts
- Rewind Record
- Prepare for Interpolation
Interface & Workflow Changes»
- Glyph Window modes
- Layers
- Rapid tool
- Text tool
- Linking Metrics
- Contour tool
- Fixed Control Handles
- Font Map panel
Improved Features»
- Slanted Grid
- Power Guides
- Eraser tool
- Pen tool
- TrueType Hinting
Reference»
User Interface»
- Preferences
- Font Info Dialog Box
- Font Window
- Glyph Window
- Metrics Window
- Toolbar
- Property bar
- Rulers
- Grid
- Panes and Panels
- Anchors and Pins panel
- Brush panel
- Classes panel
- Color panel
- Elements panel
- Features panel
- FontAudit panel
- Font Info panel
- Font Map panel
- Fonts panel
- Gallery panel
- Glyph Info panel
- Guideline panel
- History panel
- Image panel
- Kerning panel
- Layers and Masters panel
- Metrics panel
- Node panel
- Output panel
- Pairs and Phrases panel
- Preview panel
- Scripting panel
- Sketchboard
- Stroke panel
- Swatches panel
- Transform panel
- Variations panel
- View panel
- Tools keyboard
- Printing
Creating drawings»
- Sketchboard
- Importing artwork
- Bitmap images
- Autotrace
- Outlines
- Elements
- Layers
- Pencil tool
- Guidelines
- Guides tool
- Ellipse tool
- Rectangle tool
- Brush tool
- Power Brush
- Rapid tool
- Pen tool
Modifying drawings»
- Glyph Window modes
- Exclusive Editing
- Color Outlines
- Contour tool
- Element tool
- Text tool
- Fill tool
- Eraser tool
- Knife tool
- Scissors tool
- Power guides & Magnet tool
- TrueType Hinting tool
- Tunni Lines
- Unlink Corners
- Smart Corners
- Create Parallel Contour
- Expand Contour
- FontAudit
- Simplify
- Harmonize
- Balance
- Create Overlaps
- Make Overlap
- Remove Overlap
Geometric transformations»
Organization»
Glyphsets»
Metrics»
- Metrics tool
- Editing Metrics
- Metrics table
- Measurement Line
- Linking Metrics
Kerning»
- Kerning basics
- Kerning tool
- Editing Kerning
- Class Kerning
Families & masters»
- Font families
- Organizing Font Family
- Font Info Dialog Box
- Font naming
- Advanced layers
- Masters / Interpolation
Production»
Font technology»
- Font formats
- Color Font Formats
- Outline conversion
- Production layers
- OpenType features
- Hinting
- TrueType Hinting
- Font Testing Techniques
- Testing fonts on Windows
Python scripting»
- Python
- Scripts Menu
- Using Scripts