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On further thought, the Transform Wizard would work fine in this case if there were a script operator to *select* a rectangular area within a glyph so the following operations could be restricted to apply within that area only. Is there an operator that works like that? Meanwhile I'll try using 'inv...

Hi Bhikkhu, Thanks so much for your time making this nice suggestion. I'm really at newbie level, and maybe don't understand properly. AFAICS the Transform Wizard applies changes to *all* the contours/outlines in the selected range of glyphs. In the current case the scaling transform is to be applie...

I have made a font for 'negative circled numbers' in the range 0-999. Simply put each number is shown as 1, 2 or 3 white digits within a black, filled circle. Now I'm beginning to make a variation in which the size of a subset range of the 'white' digits is larger relative to the filled circle. This...

Thanks for yr. quick reply. And for the link to the nice description of ascenders/descenders. I guess then, in an ideal world, the values for 'Win Ascent' and 'Win Descent' should not be settable in the Font Properties dialog? FWIW, changing these values to 0 and recompiling w/ TTX the font works th...

Hi Folks, FontCreator Version 11.5. In the 'Font Properties' dialog it's possible to set all values for 'Spacing' and 'Additional Metrics' to 0 (zero). Super nice! But when the font is exported only some of these values are actually set to 0. Running TTX on the exported font indicates that the 0 val...