Printing and Visual Proofs

A saved proof gives reviewers a fixed result to compare and annotate. Choose an output that captures the question: a glyph map, a clean text specimen, an editing diagram, or individual glyph artwork.

Printing

Use File > Print… from the relevant view; the context determines what is printed. Recall the glyph inventory in Font Window and Font Map, Text mode in Text Mode, and the Preview panel in The Preview Panel. PDF alternatives are described below. The Font window supplies a glyph-map proof; the Glyph window supplies the displayed text; the Preview panel can supply its configured proof canvas, including useful family comparisons.

Set the text size and content before printing. Small proof sizes can begin at 4 points where the text-size controls allow it, but check the printer's actual scale rather than relying only on the number in the editor.

Printing and visual proof export remain limited, developing features rather than a complete page-layout environment. For a custom specimen, arrange the content on the Sketchboard or export visual material into a layout workflow. Inspect a first page before printing a large set.

Include the source revision, style or instance, size, and feature settings with a proof. Otherwise differences between two sheets can be caused by their settings rather than by the font revision.

PDF, SVG, and Image Export

The Preview canvas context menu provides Export as PDF… for a clean proof. The PDF uses the text content and its color, but preview effects such as blur, X-Ray, outlines, or the background may not be carried into that output. Inspect the PDF itself before sharing it.

File > Export > Window Contents… provides visual output from the supported window context. PDF is suited to filled text; SVG can retain visible editing details such as nodes, handles, and guides. Choose the view settings deliberately before using SVG as an editing illustration.

For a Font-window glyph-map PDF, the print dialog's PDF destination is a practical route. On macOS, use its PDF-saving option; on Windows, choose an available PDF printer. Do not assume that a text-oriented window export reproduces the glyph table layout.

From a Glyph window, choose File > Export > Artwork… to write the current glyph layer as PDF, SVG, or PNG. From the Font window, select the intended cells and use File > Export > Artwork…; with multiple glyphs selected, the label becomes Artwork Collection…, producing one file per glyph from its current layer. Check the destination folder and naming choices before export, then inspect representative files.

For PNG, set Scale to, pixels under Preferences > Save > Export artwork. The artwork-export path uses that value as its pixel-per-em scale. PPM controls the image scale relative to the font’s UPM. For example, at 100 PPM in a 1000-UPM font, a 700-unit-high design spans about 70 pixels before output bounds and rounding are considered. Increasing the PNG export scale produces a larger raster proof; it does not change the font's design coordinates.

These are visual artifacts, not installable fonts. A PDF or SVG can prove what was drawn in that output but cannot establish that the font's menus, shaping, hinting, or embedding behavior works in another application.