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Dear All -- apologies in advance for being a newbie. I have a glyph that I am trying to "erase" a part of. It's a square erasure, so I made a counter-clockwise contour, and sized correctly, and it erased. However, on 500x blowup zoom size, you can see the trace of a spare line. I'd like to just freehand erase it, but it seems I can't do that. The freehand erasure tool erases any line that the freehand tool itself made. It won't erase "on net" or just be an overall eraser.

So I went back to the regular (non-freehand) window, but the artifact is very thin on the glyph. My "draw a counterclockwise contour" trick won't work to erase that little sweater thread.

I think I've attached the image of the glyph here. How would you erase those 2 "artifact" lines?

Again, sorry that I'm a beginner.

Make a couple rectangles (or other shape) that spans across the parts you want removed. Select both shapes and use "Get exclusion of contours" command. Delete the extra bits.
Mike

Oh, I'm trying this, but I have the home edition! It might not let me do this.

"Note: Union, Intersection, Exclusion and Knife are not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator."

I think I might have solved it. The original glyph was an O in the shape of a square, and I added counter-clockwise contour rectangles to cut it.

I blew up the figure to 1000% zoom. At this level of resolution, FontCreator offered me point handles on the artifact. It was a narrow triangle (really a trapezoid). I grabbed the points and moved them to eliminate the trapezoid (or perhaps make a really thin nothing line). We can't see it now even at 100x size.