I have recently upgraded to FontCreator 14. Broadly it's been a nice upgrade from 11, but there are a few things I'd like to ask about.
Firstly, the "Add Rectangle" tool's behaviour has changed in a way I find less useful than in 11. In FC11, this tool would always draw a rectangle with its contours in the same direction. In FC14, it appears to draw the rectangle with its contours in the opposite direction if it overlaps, or even just kisses, another shape. See the below - these shapes are both drawn with the rectangle tool, next to each other, and are opposite directions, so "Get union of contours" would not join them. I would appreciate the ability, even just as a boolean in Options, to return "Add Rectangle" and "Add Circle" to drawing in one direction only. (Or if this is already possible, how do I toggle this?)
Secondly: is there a way of enabling grid lock on the boundary lines? I like to have RSB set to an exact multiple of 100, but it's less intuitive to have to adjust its number in Glyph Properties than it is just to visually snap it to a line in the font window.
Lastly: is there a way of setting certain things in the program to float by default rather than docking by default? I'd love it if I could have all my open fonts, glyph properties, preview bar etc. docked, but then any time I open a particular glyph to edit it, that opens in its own floating window rather than docking with the fonts I have open. (So it looks like below) Thank you for the great work you continue to do with FontCreator, and I love a lot of the new stuff FC14's brought besides the odd growing pain