Fontlab FONTLAB 4.6 User Manual

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FontLab® 4.6

for Windows®

User Manual

FontLab 4

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User manual release 4.60 [8/2003]

Contents

CONTENTS	3
INTRODUCTION	15
About this Manual	16
System Requirements	18
FONTLAB USER INTERFACE	19
Basic Terms	20
Getting Started	24
Customizing FontLab’s User Interface	26
Customizing Toolbars	27
Customizing Menus	29
Customizing Individual Items	30
Converting a Menu to a Toolbar	32
Customization of the Keyboard	33
Links to External Programs	35
Faster Method to Customize Commands	36
FontLab Windows	37
Font Window	38
Glyph Window	40
Metrics Window	44
Panels	48
EDITING FONTS	51
Opening Fonts	52
Font Formats	55
Import Options	56
Creating a New Font	61
The Font Window	62
Encoding Modes	66
Characters, Codes and Glyphs	67
Names Mode	71
The Unicode Standard	74

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Unicode Ranges	75
Codepages	78

Using the Font Window	82
Navigating	83
Selecting	84
Context Menu	85
Moving Glyphs	88
Saving the Font	90
Autosave	92
Copying and Pasting Glyphs	93
The Paste Special Command	94
Copying Glyphs to Another Font	95
Appending Glyphs to the Font	96
Copying Composite Glyphs	97
Duplicating Unicode Indexes	98
Deleting Glyphs	99
Creating New Glyphs	100
Highlighting Glyphs	101
Marking Glyphs	101
Glyph Collection	103
Searching for Glyphs	106
Renaming Glyphs	108
Reencoding the Font	110
Unicode-Related Operations	113
Generating Unicode Indexes	113
Generating Names	115
Removing Unicode Information	116
The Font Map Panel	117
Managing Double-Byte Codepages	119
Notes	120
Sorting Glyphs	121
Working with Multiple Fonts	122
Windows List	123
Fonts Panel	124
Merging Fonts	126
Saving and Opening a Workspace	127
Applying Actions	128
Blending Fonts	129
Exporting and Printing	132

Contents

Font Formats	132
Export Options	135
Type 1 Export Options	137
TrueType Export Options	141
OpenType Export Options	146
Recommended Export Options	148
Printing Fonts	149
Font Window Options	151
View Options	152
Tuning Options	153

THE FONT HEADER	155
Font Info Dialog Box	156
Command Bar	158
Copying Font Info	159
Font Names	160
Basic Identification and Names	161
Accessing MyFonts.com Database	164
OpenType-Specific Names	166
Non-English and Special Names	167
Copyright Information	171
Font Embedding	172
Designer Information	173
License Information	174
Font Identification	175
Version Information	175
Basic Font Identification	176
PANOSE™ Identification	178
Other Identification Systems	180
Metrics and Dimensions	182
Font UPM Value	182
Basic Font Dimensions	183
Advanced Vertical Metrics	184
Superscript and Subscript	187
Encoding and Unicode	188
Supported Codepages	189
Supported Unicode Ranges	191
Hinting Settings	192
Alignment Zones	193
Type 1 Standard Stems	195
Global Hinting Parameters	197
Format-Specific Options	199
Type 1 Export Options	200
TrueType Export Options	201
TrueType Mapping Settings	202
Device-Dependent Metrics	203

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Font Smoothing Control	205
[head] Table Settings	207
Basic PCLT options	208
PCLT Identification	209
PCLT Metrics and Font Description	210
PCLT Codepages	211

THE GLYPH WINDOW	213
Glyph Window Contents	214
The Glyphs Bar	217
Selecting a Glyph for Editing	219
Changing the View in the Glyph Window	220
Quick Zoom Selection	222
Tools and Operations	224
Edit Mode	226
Editing Layers	228
Easier Way to Control Editing Layers	231
Outline Layer	232
Contours	234
Outline Appearance	240
FontAudit	245
Moving Nodes	248
Using the Keyboard	251
Non-node editing	252
Changing Connection Type	254
Deleting Nodes	255
Deleting Lines and Curves	256
Eraser Tool	257
Inserting Nodes	258
Using the Drawing Tool	259
Adding Points to a Contour	261
Converting Primitives	262
Breaking and Joining Outlines	263
Node Commands	264
Node Properties	266
Previewing Glyphs	268
Selections	276
Using the Magic Wand Tool	277
Moving the Selection	278
Copying the Selection	278
Transforming the Selection	281
Selection Commands	285
Selection Properties Panel	286
Transformation Panel	287
Find and Replace Operation	289
Building an Outline From Blocks	291

Contents

Outline Actions	296
Creating Contours	297
Merging and Intersecting Contours	301
Outline Optimization	302

Metrics	303
Editing Metrics	304
Baseline Properties Panel	306
Metrics Properties Panel	306
Grid Layer	307
Guidelines Layer	308
Editing Guidelines	309
Guidelines Popup Menu	311
Guidelines Tracking	312
Guidelines Properties Panel	313
Mask Layer	314
Editing Mask	315
Mask Operations	316
Assigning a Mask	317
Specifying Mask Appearance	318
Template Layer	320
Background Layer	321
Background Positioning	323
Hints And Links Layer	324
Links	325
Editing Hints	326
Hints Tracking	327
Editing Links	328
Hint and Link Popup Menu	329
Hint Commands	330
Autohinting Options	331
Hint Properties Panel	333
Link Properties Panel	333
Anchors Layer	334
Moving Anchors	335
Removing Anchors	335
Renaming Anchors	335
Changing Anchor Color	335
Anchor Properties	336
Using Anchors to Build Composites	337
Using the Anchors Panel	340
Creating Composites and Ligatures	342
Aliases Table	344
Vertical Metrics	345
Alignment Zones	346

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Sketch Mode	347
Moving Points	350
Changing Point Type	350
Removing Points	350
Inserting Points	351
Reversing Contours	351
Selecting Points	352
Moving the Selection	353
Transforming the Selection	353
Selection Operations	354
Breaking and Joining the Sketch Outline	354
Converting to Outline	355

VectorPaint Mode	356
Freehand Select Tool	358
Pen (Contour) Tool	359
Brush Tool	360
VectorPaint Options	362
Line Tool	363
Polygon Tool	364
Ellipse and Rectangle Tools	365
Text Tool	366

Meter Mode	367
Setting Guidelines, Anchors and Sidebearings	369
Outline Operations	370
Interpolation	371
Envelope	375
Curve	378
Set	379
Reversing a Contour’s Direction	380
Rearranging Contours	381
Working with Composite Glyphs	382
Adding a Component	383
Decomposing	384
Component Positioning	384
Component Properties	387
Using the Primitives Panel	388
Importing and Exporting Glyphs	391
Printing a Glyph	393

EDITING FONT METRICS	395
What are Font Metrics?	396

Contents

Kerning	397
Metrics Files	398

Metrics Window	399
Selecting a String for Previewing or Metrics Editing	402
Editing an Underline	407
Editing Metrics	408
Manual Metrics Editing	409
Using the Keyboard	410
Using the Metrics Table	411
The Measurement Line	413
Automatic Metrics Generation	414
Quick Save and Quick Open	416
Editing Kerning	417
Manual Kerning Editing	418
Using the Keyboard	419
Using the Table	420
Using the Kerning Dialog	421
Automatic Kerning Generation	423
Resetting Kerning	425
Adjusting Metrics and Kerning	426
Class-Based Kerning	428
Classes Panel	429
Class Definition	431
Defining the Class	432
Key Glyph	433
Editing Class-Based Kerning	434
Kerning Assistance	435
Metrics Assistance	438
Class-Based Kerning and OpenType Fonts	440
Opening Metrics Files	441
Saving Metrics Files	443
Printing a Sample String	444

TRANSFORMATIONS	445
The Transform Dialog Box	446
Transformation Actions	448
Outline Transformation	449
Hints and Guidelines Transformation	457
Metrics Transformation	459
Effects	462
Transform Range Dialog Box	468
Transformation Range	469

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Transformation Program	471
Using the Preview Window	472
Saving and Opening a Transformation Program	473
Transforming Fonts	474

HINTING	477
Font Scaling, PPM	478
Coordinate Rounding, Gridfitting	479
TrueType And Type 1 Hints	480
Type 1 Hints	481
Font-Level Type 1 Hints	482
Alignment Zones	483
Standard Stem Widths	487
Additional Control Data	490
Stem Hint Programming	492
Type 1 Hinting Tool	495
Inserting And Removing Replacement Points	497
Adding and removing hints	498
Editing Hints	499
Autoreplacing	500
Preview Panel	500
Some Examples	505
TrueType Instructions	506
Font Parameters	508
Visual TrueType Hints	509
TrueType Hinting Tool	510
Toolbar	512
Layers	514
Options Panel	515
TrueType Preview Panel	516
Program Panel	518
Alignment Instructions	521
Alignment Zones	521
AlignTop and AlignBottom Instructions	522
Hinting Alignment Zones	523
Align Instruction	524
Links	527
Standard Stems	528
Single Links	529

Contents

Double Links	534
Interpolation	538
Delta Instructions	540
Middle Delta Instructions	541
Final Delta Instructions	546
Removing Instructions	548
Standard Stems	549
Advanced Options	554
Context Menu	555
Hinting Sidebearings	561
Hinting Composite Glyphs	562
Automatic TrueType Hinting	563
Working With Bitmaps	564
Importing Bitmaps	565
Editing Bitmaps	566
Highlight Differences	568
Exporting Bitmaps	569
Hinting Strategies	570
Middle Delta or Final Delta	570
Single Link or Double Link	572
Hinting White Space	574
Hinting Serifs	576
Hinting Diagonals	577
Hinting Symmetrical Characters	578
Interpolate or Not	579

MULTIPLE MASTER FONTS	581
Multiple Master Fonts Theory	582
Design Axes and Dynamic Range	584
Standard Axes	586
Design Coordinates and Weight Vectors	589
Extrapolation	591
Anisotropic Interpolation	592
The Axis Graph	593
Multiple Master Fonts in FontLab	594
Creation of MM Fonts in FontLab	595
Defining an Axis	596
Selecting a Master Font	598
Using an Axis Panel	600
Previewing the Intermediate Design	604
Designing Master Fonts	605
Multiple Master Metrics	614

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Editing Axis Settings	615
Removing an Axis	616
Multiple Master and Font Info	617
Multiple Master Font Metrics	619
Editing the Axis Graph	620
Generating a Single-Master Font	623
Expanding the Master	624
Hinting Multiple Master Fonts	625
Generating a Multiple Master Type 1 Font	626

OPENTYPE FONTS	627
Font Features	628
Features and Lookups	630
Scripts and Languages	631
OpenType Font Formats	632
OpenType Tables	634
Feature Definition Language	635
Language Syntax	636
OpenType and FontLab	647
Importing OpenType Fonts	648
OpenType Panels	649
OpenType Panel	649
Adding and Removing Features	651
Reordering Features	652
Entering the Glyph and Class Names	653
Renaming Glyphs and Classes	654
Compiling the Feature Definitions	655
The Output Panel	657
OpenType Features Preview Panel	658
Converting the Kerning	660
Feature Development Process	661
Substitution Lookups	662
Single Substitution	663
Ligature Substitution	665
Alternate Substitution	667
Context-Dependent Substitutions	668
Positioning Lookups	672
Glyph Geometry	673
Value Record	674
Single Positioning	675
Pair Positioning	676
Known Features	679
OpenType Glyph Properties	683
Caret Positioning	684

Contents

Exporting OpenType Fonts	685
FontLab and VOLT	687

MACRO PROGRAMMING	689
The Python Programming Language	690
Installing Python	691
Macro Toolbar	692
Assign to Keyboard	694
Integrating into Menus	695
Macro Tool	696
Edit Macro Panel	697
Naming the Programs	698
First Steps	699
FontLab Python Classes	701
FontLab	702
Font	704
Glyph	706
INDEX	709

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing FontLab 4.6 – a new version of our professional font editor.

The key features of FontLab 4.6 are:

•Outline editors with more than 20 tools and 200-level undo/redo

•Import and export of fonts in OpenType, TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats with up to 6,400 characters.

•Import, export and native-mode editing of Multiple Master fonts

•Import and export of individual glyphs in EPS format

•Multiple Master-enabled metric and kerning editing module with customisable autospacing and autokerning features

•OpenType feature editing and testing

•Import of OpenType features from existing fonts

•Import and export of font metrics files in PFM and AFM format

•Professional-level manual and automatic Type 1 and TrueType hinting

•Automatic transformation of glyphs with more than 25 filters

•Library of predefined customisable graphics primitives

•Automatic testing of glyph outlines with our unique FontAudit technology

•Integrated Macro language based on the industry-standard Python language

•New Unique Sketch mode with easy drawing tools

•VectorPaint tools

•Support of 4 encoding modes and an unlimited number of encoding tables

•Easy-to-use completely customisable drag/drop-based user interface

•Popup menus and property panels everywhere

•Sample printing of fonts, sample strings and individual glyphs

•Automatic Multiple Master-compatible font blending

•OpenType-based Kerning and Metrics assistants

•Smooth outline preview

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About this Manual

This manual covers the Windows version of FontLab 4.6.

The following chapters describe all of FontLab’s features in full detail. They are organized to cover all the functions in their usual sequence.

FontLab User Interface

This chapter covers the basic definitions of the FontLab user interface and its customization and gives a short description of all the FontLab editing windows and panels.

Editing Fonts

This chapter explains how to modify fonts, copy characters, change encoding tables, select characters for editing, and edit font info fields.

The Font Header

This chapter provides a detailed description of the Font Header data and the FontLab tools intended to manage it.

The Glyph Window

FontLab includes powerful outline-editing tools that are described in this chapter.

Editing Font Metrics

If you want to create a professional-looking font you have to edit the font’s metric data. The glyphs’ widths, sidebearings, and kerning can be edited in FontLab automatically or manually. This chapter shows you how.

Transformations

From scale to drop shadow, from autohinting to autospacing - more than 25 transformation filters can help you instantly expand your font collection. This chapter gives detailed descriptions of all the transformations and their usage in FontLab.

Introduction

Hinting

To make your Type 1 or TrueType fonts look great everywhere you have to set hints. FontLab includes hinting tools that were previously available only in high-end font editing systems. Hinting can be a complicated process, so read this chapter carefully to get the best results.

Multiple Master Fonts

Opening, editing and exporting Multiple Master fonts; adding and removing design axes; editing the Design Map Graph – everything you ever wanted to know about multiple master fonts is in this chapter.

OpenType Fonts

This chapter covers FontLab tools, panels and features that deal with creation and editing of OpenType font features: ligatures, small caps, fractions, alternative glyphs, etc.

Macro Programming

This chapter includes a short description and demonstration of the Python programming language and its integration into the FontLab user interface. Python can be used to create custom tools and operations within FontLab. A brief description of the FontLab classes exported to Python is provided.

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System Requirements

The Windows version of FontLab requires one of the following hardware and software configurations:

A PC computer capable of running one of the following versions of Windows: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP with one of these operating systems installed.

At least 10Mb of free space on the HDD and at least 64 Mb RAM. FontLab will start on 32Mb RAM but you will need more RAM to open bigger fonts.

FontLab User Interface

Before we start talking about fonts and the FontLab font-editing features let’s spend some time learning the FontLab user interface. For the most part it is a standard Windows interface so if you know how to navigate in Windows or in Microsoft Office you will feel comfortable with FontLab. In other parts it is unique and that is where we will focus.

Most of the interface elements in FontLab 4 are completely customizable and from this chapter you will learn how to change the FontLab interface so it will best fit your needs.

Please note that further in the book we will refer to menu commands, toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts as they appear in the default FontLab environment, prior to any modifications you may make.

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Basic Terms

We cannot go any further without defining a few terms that are critical to understanding FontLab and fonts in general.

Character

The minimal unit of the written language – a part of the alphabet, a symbol.

Any picture that can be recognized as having the same meaning represents the same character:

All the pictures above mean the character ‘A’

Please note that sometimes pictures that look the same represent different characters:

Latin ‘A’

Cyrillic ‘A’

Greek ‘Alpha’

Characters have codes that are used to store text data on a computer.

Glyph

The basic element of the font, literally – an image that is printed. All glyphs are unique, even if they represent the same character.

Glyphs are used to represent characters. Please note that many different glyphs may be used to represent the same character, even in the same font:

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Font

An organized collection of glyphs and font header information. Usually glyphs that are united in a font have some similarities in design and other properties.

In the past, a “font” was defined as a single size of the characters of a particular typeface. Now, since fonts are scalable, the term “font” covers all possible sizes of the same typeface design.

Encoding

When text is printed an important process takes place: character to glyph mapping. The source text (in computer form) is a list of codes that represents a list of characters. A font (see above) is a collection of glyphs. So there must be some way to relate characters to glyphs so that when the computer’s operating system encounters a certain character it knows which glyph to print. This “mapping” (or “vector”) is called the encoding. Sometimes the encoding information resides within the font itself as part of the header and other times it is in a separate file.

Font Family

It is important to know the difference between a font and a font family. A font family is a set of fonts that represents some design idea. “Times” is a font family (sometimes called typeface). “Times Bold Italic” is a font.

A font family may include from one to a few dozen fonts.

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Glyph name

The only identification of a glyph (other than its visual appearance) is its name. A Western glyph name consists of Latin characters, digits and punctuation. It is highly recommended you name glyphs in accordance with the following rules:

1.No spaces.

2.No digits at the beginning.

3.Only ‘.’ And ‘_’ punctuation marks are allowed in the name.

When we refer to menu items in the main FontLab menu, we will use the following notation:

[top menu item]/[sub-item]

For example:

Edit > Copy means: click the word Edit on the menu bar and select the Copy command from the menu:

FontLab User Interface

Directories

When we have to refer to one of the directories created during FontLab installation, we will use the following syntax:

FontLab/[directory name]

Where FontLab is the name of the folder where you have installed FontLab 4 (usually /Program Files/FontLab/FontLab4) and [directory name] is the name of the directory, as in the example below:

FontLab/data

Mouse

Click the mouse on some	Position the mouse cursor on the object and click the
object	left mouse button
Right-click some object	Position the cursor on the object and click the right
	mouse button
Ctrl-click something	Position the cursor over “something”, hold down the
	CTRL key on the keyboard and click the left mouse
	button.
Drag some object	Position the cursor on the object, press the left mouse
	button and move the mouse to move the object.
	Release the mouse button when you’re done.

Context Menu

Most windows and panels in FontLab have attached context menus. To open the context menu, right-click an empty area in the window or panel.

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Getting Started

When you run FontLab 4 for the first time (to run FontLab double-click on

its icon ) you will see a welcome screen for a few seconds and then the FontLab window:

Like almost all Windows programs FontLab has a menu, a few toolbars and a status bar at the bottom.

There is nothing special about the FontLab menu except that you can position it any place on the screen. The usual location is at the top of the screen, but if you want to put it somewhere else, just drag it there:

The same thing can be done with any toolbar – you can leave them at the top or drag them anywhere.

FontLab User Interface

You can easily choose which toolbars you want to see: use the Toolbars command in the View menu or simply click the right mouse button on a menu, toolbar, or toolbar docking panel and you’ll get exactly the same menu:

Following is a list of common toolbars with a few comments about each:

Standard	Contains basic commands like file open and save, copy/paste, print
	and help
Panels	Controls the appearance of FontLab panels – shared windows used
	to control most professional FontLab features
Options	Controls the appearance of basic Editing layers
Tools	Probably the most important toolbar – gives access to editing tools
	that you will use to work on glyph shapes
Macro	Opens the Macro Call panel which gives quick access to pre-written
	macro programs that can automate various font-editing tasks

You may notice a few italic terms. We will describe them later. Specifically, panels and Glyph window will be described in a few pages; Editing layers in the “Glyph Window” chapter; and macro programs in “Macro Programming” chapter.

OK, we are almost ready to open a sample font, but before we do lets’ talk about customization of the FontLab user interface.

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Customizing FontLab’s User

Interface

As you may infer from the title of this section most of the FontLab user interface (which means menus, toolbars and keyboard shortcuts) is customizable. We believe our default interface is the easiest to use, but if for some reason you don’t like it, you are free to make any changes you want. If you don’t want to change anything in the FontLab user interface, you can fast forward to the next section.

The general idea of customization is simple: there is a long list of commands that you can use and three kind of controls: menus, toolbars and keyboard shortcuts. Through customization you can assign any command to a menu item, button on a toolbar or combination of keys pressed on a keyboard. In addition you can organize commands in popup menus or toolbars.

Most of the customization commands are concentrated in the Customize panel that you can open with the Customize… command from the Tools menu or the same command located in the context menu which appears if you right-click on a menu, toolbar or toolbar dock area:

The customization dialog box consist of several pages:

Commands	List of all the available commands grouped into several categories
Toolbars	Customization of toolbars. There is an option to create new
	toolbars.
Tools	On this page you can “connect” an external program to a menu item
	in FontLab’s Tools menu
Keyboard	Customization of keyboard shortcuts
Menu	Customization of menus

While the Customize dialog box is open all interface elements are in “editable” mode, so you can simply drag-drop buttons and menu items between different toolbars. You can also customize the appearance of menu items and toolbar buttons.

FontLab User Interface

Customizing Toolbars

To move a button within a toolbar just press the left mouse button on it; drag it to the new location and drop it. If you drag the button slightly further to the right, a separator bar will be added between it and the previous button:

To move a button to another toolbar, just drag-drop it there. To copy a button, hold the CTRL key while you drag the button.

To remove a button from a toolbar, drag it out of the toolbar:

In FontLab there is very little difference between a menu and a toolbar, so you can rearrange, copy or remove menu items just like you did with toolbar buttons:

You can also drag a menu item onto a toolbar to add a toolbar button. Hold the CTRL key to copy the item.

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To get access to all the FontLab commands, open the Commands page in the Customize dialog box:

In the list select a group of commands and use the list of commands in the right list as a source of menu items and toolbar buttons: just drag the commands from there.

FontLab User Interface

Customizing Menus

If you want to create a new popup menu, just select the New Menu group in the left menu and drag it onto the main menu bar or any of the toolbars. A new menu appears and you can start adding commands to it using the drag-drop technique described above.

With the Customize dialog not only can you customize the main menu, but also most of the context menus which appear when you right-click FontLab windows. Open the Menu page in the Customize dialog box and choose a context menu in the right combo box:

A menu appears on screen and you can customize it by dragging commands from the toolbar, other menus or the list of the commands on the Commands page.

To reset changes you’ve made in menus, use the Reset buttons on the Menu page of the Customize dialog box. Use the left Reset command to reset changes in the main menu and the right Reset button to reset changes in the context menus.

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Customizing Individual Items

You can customize the appearance of any menu item or toolbar button. The following appearances are available for most items:

Image

Text

Image and Text

To change the appearance of the menu item or toolbar button position the mouse cursor on the button and click the right mouse button. Select the new appearance method in the context menu:

Most commands in FontLab have pre-designed images, but you can easily create your own images for any toolbar button or menu command. To do so, select the Button Appearance… command in the button’s context menu:

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