- Fit
- In the outline and bitmap views this will scale the
current glyph to the largest setting where it all fits in the
view.
- Zoom Out
- Not in the font view. Centered on the middle selection if
there is one, else the middle of the view.
- Zoom In
- Not in the font view. Centered on the middle selection if
there is one, else the middle of the view.
- Next Glyph
-
In the metrics, outline and bitmap view this changes the
current glyph to be the next one in the font.
In the font view this selects the next glyph in the font
(and scrolls, if necessary, to display that glyph).
- Prev Glyph
-
In the metrics, outline and bitmap view this changes the
current glyph to be the previous one in the font.
In the font view this selects the next glyph in the font
(and scrolls, if necessary, to display that glyph).
- Next Defined
Glyph
- Similar to Next Glyph, except it moves to the next glyph
defined in the font.
- Prev Defined
Glyph
- Similar to Prev Glyph, except it moves to the previous
glyph defined in the font.
- Former Glyph
- Changes the glyph window to look at whatever glyph was
being edited there before this one (one level of
history).
- Substitutions
-
Brings up a sub menu showing all the GSUB type 1 and type 3
substitutions (simple and alternate) you have defined for
the selected glyph and allows you to change the glyph as
directed by the substitution. Also contains an entry to
return you to the original glyph.
Substitutions may be set with the Element->Glyph Info command.
- Goto
Replace Glyph...
-
In the Font, Outline, Bitmap and Metrics views this brings
up a dialog in which you may type either:
- A name of a glyph in the current font
- A number (in either decimal or hex) indicating the
glyph you are interested in, in the current encoding
- A hex number ,preceded by "U+" or "uni" or "u",
indicating the character you are interested in in
unicode.
- A decimal number, preceded by "glyph" ,indicating the
glyph index in the original glyph list.
- A ku ten representation of a CJK font (two comma
separated numbers)
- A standard name (which need not be used in the
current font) but which can be mapped to a unicode
value.
- For 2/4 byte encodings you will also be shown a
pull-down list of unicode ranges (Things like "Greek",
"Katakana", "Hangul Compatibility Jamo") and you can
select one of the range names.
- Arabic letters may also be named as:
afii57442.isolated
or
0x642.initial
- A single unicode character
In the font view the view will scroll so that this glyph
is visible and it will be selected
In the bitmap, outline and metrics views, the current
glyph will change to be the one specified.
- Insert Glyph
Before...
Insert Glyph
After...
- In the metrics view this brings up a dialog similar to
the previous one allowing you to enter a glyph by name or
encoding either before or after the currently selected
position.
- Layers
- A submenu which only appears in the font view. It lets
you chose which layer to display in the font view.
- Find In Font
View
- In the outline, bitmap and metrics views this will scroll
the associated font view so that the current glyph is
displayed (and selected) in the fontview.
- Show ATT
- Only in the font view. Brings up a dlg showing the advanced typographic
tables (GPOS/GSUB or morx/kern) that FontForge supports.
- Display
Substitutions
-
Only in the font view. This allows you to select a simple
substitution, any glyph with that substitution attached
will be displayed as the substituted glyph. Any glyph
without such a substitution will be left blank. Double
clicking on a glyph will either go the substituted version
or will create a substituted version and go to that.
(However almost no other commands will be aware of this
mapping, which will probably be confusing).
Displaying small caps ('smcp' substitution)
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- Combinations
-
A submenu containing
- Kern
Pairs
- This brings up a dialog
showing all kerning pairs in the current font (or, if
invoked from the outline glyph view, a list of all
kerning pairs involving that glyph). You may alter
kerning pairs here too.
- Anchored
Pairs
-
This may have a sub-menu of its own containing all the
anchor classes for this font and an entry "All". You
may choose to see all combinations of glyphs from a
given anchor class, or all combinations from all
anchored classes.
If invoked from the outline glyph view it will
provide a list of all anchored combinations involving
that glyph.
Selecting a combination and double clicking on it will
bring up an Anchor
Control dialog.
- Anchor
Control
- Only in the outline view. Has a submenu of all anchor
points in this glyph. Selecting one brings upt the
Anchor Control
dialog.
- Anchor Glyph at
Point
- Only in the outline view. Allows you to attach and
display another glyph at the selected anchor point.
- Ligatures
- This brings up a dialog showing the names of all
ligatures and of the glyphs that compose them (if invoked
from the outline glyph view, a list of all ligatures
containing that glyph). Double clicking on an entry will
bring up a window showing that ligature.
- Label Glyph
By
-
In the font view each glyph has a label above it. This may
be either:
- An image of the glyph (from a conventional font)
- The name of the glyph
- The unicode code point associated with the glyph
- The glyph's encoding (in hex)
Note that when the glyphs are small (the 24 pixel view,
for example) there may not be room for the entire name of
each glyph (or even for the encoding), so the labels may be
truncated.
- View H.
Metrics...
- In the font view this will control which of the
horizontal metrics lines are draw across the displayed
glyphs. In the outline glyph view the same functionality is
available from one of the palettes. See the font view for more
information
- View V.
Metrics...
- In the font view this will control which of the vertical
metrics lines are draw across the displayed glyphs. In the
outline glyph view the same functionality is available from
one of the palettes. (This will be greyed out if your font
does not have vertical metrics in it). See the font view for more
information
- 32x8 cell window
- In the font view you may explicitly set the window size
so that there are 32 glyph cells horizontally and 8
vertically.
- 16x4 cell window
- In the font view you may explicitly set the window size
so that there are 16 glyph cells horizontally and 4
vertically.
- 8x2 cell window
- In the font view you may explicitly set the window size
so that there are 8 glyph cells horizontally and 2
vertically.
- 24 pixel outline
- In the font view you may choose how large you want the
rasterized representation of the outline view to be. The
default is to rasterize it on a 24 pixel block. If this item
is checked then a 24 pixel version of the outline font is
displayed, selecting it will display a 24 pixel version of
the font.
(Exactly one em-square of the glyph will be displayed, if the
glyph extends above the ascent or below the descent those
features will be clipped)
- 36 pixel outline
- Similar to the above but for a 36 pixel version.
- 48 pixel outline
- Similar to the above but for a 48 pixel version.
- 72 pixel outline
- Similar to the above but for a 72 pixel version.
- 96 pixel outline
- Similar to the above but for a 96 pixel version.
- AntiAlias
- Only in the font and metrics view. Toggles between
whether the font displayed in the view is a bitmapped font or
an anti-aliased font. An Anti-aliased font shows levels of
grey rather than just black and white. It often looks better
than a bitmap, but it is slower to generate and draw.
- Vertical
- Only in the metrics view. Toggles between displaying
horizontal and vertical metrics. (Only available if
Element->Font Info->General->Has Vertical Metrics is
set).
- Fit To Em
-
Only in the font view. The fontview will either display
glyphs scaled so that the font's bounding box fits in the
window, or so that the em fits in the window. The advantage
of the first method is that you see all of each glyph, the
advantage of the second is that you can see how the letter
sizes compare from font to font.
(This is something of a simplification. In
bounding box mode the displayed font is scaled so that the
vertical size (as found in the bounding box) fits it the
window. Very wide glyphs will still not fit horizontally.
Also the scaling is not updated when glyphs change, if you
have changed the maximum bounds of the font you might want
to force a rescale by toggling this mode)
- Bitmap
Magnification...
- In the font view. When displaying a bitmap font it is
sometimes desirable to look at the font with a greater
magnification than normal.
- <list of bitmap
pixel sizes, if any>
- In the font view or metrics view there is a list of all
generated bitmap fonts. You may select to have one of them
displayed in the view rather than a rasterized version of the
outline font. If one is checked then that one is currently
displayed, if you select one then it will be displayed.
In CID keyed fonts this list will not be present.
If your font database includes some greymap fonts then these
will be listed here too, as usual they will be displayed as
<pixel-size>@<bits-per-pixel>
- Show/Hide Grid
-
In the Metrics View this entry allows you to turn on or off
the lines marking the edges of the glyphs on display. There
are 4 levels
- Show Grid -- Always show the full grid lines
- Partial Grid -- Show short lines at the top and
bottom of the window so the line will not be distracting
when examining spacing
- Hide when moving -- Show the full grid line normally,
but it will vanish while the user adjusts spacing with
the mouse
- Hode Grid -- Always hide the grid.
- Outline
- In the Metrics View this will be checked when the outline
font is bring displayed. Selecting it will display the
outline font (rather than a bitmap font).
- Number Points
- In the Outline view, this small sub-menu allows you to
control whether point numbers are displayed next to points in
the foreground view. This is primarily for TrueType, where
the instructions use these numbers to refer to the points
when they do grid-fitting. The numbering scheme is a little
different depending on what the expected output (input) will
be, so we have a sub-menu listing output types.
- Show Grid Fit
-
- Show Grid
Fit
- In the Outline view and only if the freetype library
is available. Brings up a dialog which allows you to
control whether a grid fit version of the splines in the
font is displayed.
- Bigger Point
Size
- In the Outline view, if grid fitting is turned on,
this will increase the point size (note, this is slightly
different from increasing the pixel size).
- Smaller Point
Size
- In the Outline view, if grid fitting is turned on,
this will decrease the point size.
- Anti-Alias
- In the Outline view, if grid fitting is turned on,
this will toggle whethe the display is in anti alias
mode.
- Off
- Turns off grid fitting.
- Show
-
This submenu is only in the outline glyph view.
- Points
- This hides or displays the points in the outline
glyph view.
- Show Control Point
Info
- In the Outline view, when you move a control point this mode pops
up a little window showing various bits of information
about the control point you are editing.
- Extrema
- In the Outline view,
in postscript
and truetype fonts (in almost all cases) should have
their horizontal and vertical extrema at the endpoints of
splines. This setting will mark extremal endpoints by
coloring them a dull purple to remind you that you should
not delete them. If an extremum occurs somewhere other
than an end point a crosshair will be drawn around it.
You might consider doing Element->Add
Extrema in this case (or you might not, this can be
ok in some cases).
- Points of Inflection
- In the Outline view, points of inflection occur where
the change in the slope of the curve (second derivative)
changes sign. Quadratic splines (truetype) cannot
represent points of inflection. If you have a postscript
font which you intend to convert to truetype it can be
helpful to know where these difficult points lie. (the
cubic->quadratic approximation routines will often add
intermediate points at these points of inflection)
- Almost
Horizontal/Vertical Lines
- If a line is almost, but not quite horizontal or
vertical then draw the line in a different color to show
visually that it should be fixed.
- Almost
Horizontal/Vertical Curves
- If a curve is almost, but not quite horizontal or
vertical at one of its endpoints then draw little tick
marks at the end point to indicate this.
- (Define
Almost)
- Define what "almost" means, as used in the above two
commands.
- Side Bearings
- Draws little lines to mark the left and right side
bearings of a glyph.
- Fill
- In the Outline view this fills in the glyph outline
as you edit it. (this can be very slow. If the glyph is
too big (too magnified) then filling will not be
done).
- Preview
- A preview mode hides points, hints, various other
stuff and fills the outline to give a better feeel of the
glyph's looks. Besides usual shortcut toggling it on and
off — Ctrl+[key above Tab] (eg,
Ctrl+` on a US keyboard) — it can be also used by
holding that [key above Tab] down (unless
quick navigation is enabled).
- Palettes
-
- Tools
- If this item is checked then the tools palette
(in the outline and bitmap views) is visible.
Selecting it toggles whether the palette is visible
or not.
- Layers
- If this item is checked then the layers palette
(in the outline and bitmap views) is visible.
Selecting it toggles whether the palette is visible
or not.
- Shades
- Only in the bitmap view, and only if editing
grey-scale (anti-aliased) fonts. Controls whether the
shades of grey palette is visible or not.
- Dock Palettes
- Allows you to control whether you want the
palettes free standing or docked in the current
view.
The window manager under gnome does not handle this
properly. If you want docked palettes under gnome:
Open a window with palettes, select docked palettes
(the palettes will not dock), close the window,
reopen the window. The palettes are now docked and
should be from here on.
- Glyph Tabs
- Controls whether the outline glyph view has a set of
tabs of past glyphs viewed in that window.
- Rulers
- In the Glyph Outline View toggles whether rulers
appear at the top and to the left of the editing
area.
- Horizontal
Hints
- Controls whether horizontal hints are visible
- Vertical Hints
- Controls whether vertical hints are visible
- Diagonal Hints
- Controls whether diagonal hints are visible
- BlueValues
- Controls whether the glyph's PostScript BlueValues
are visible
- FamilyBlues
- Controls whether the glyph's PostScript FamilyBlues
are visible.
- Anchors
- Controls whether Anchor points are visible
- Horizontal
Metrics
- Controls whether horizontal metrics lines (the width
line) are visible.
- Vertical
Metrics
- Controls whether vertical metrics lines (the vertical
advance line) are visible.
- Snap Outlines to Pixel Grid
- Cairo can draw contours with sub-pixel resolution --
which means that if a spline's end point falls somewhere
between two pixels then cairo will draw a bit of the
contour on both pixels this leads to an often undesirable
level of fuzziness. In some sense it provides a more
accurate indication of where the spline goes. This menu
item can be used to turn that on and off.
- Bigger Pixel Size
- In the bitmap view this displays the current glyph in
next larger bitmap font (if there is one)
- Smaller Pixel
Size
- In the bitmap view this displays the current glyph in
next smaller bitmap font (if there is one)