Tip of the Day
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:54 pm
As this thread is getting rather long, I have added a Table of Contents
The topic has been updated for FontCreator 13 by removing some tips that are now out of date.
The topic has been updated for FontCreator 13 by removing some tips that are now out of date.
- To Quickly Remove Guidelines
- Adjusting Geometric Centre
- Designing Ligatures
- Skewing Contours
- Making a Smooth Bracket
- Making Stencil Fonts
- Changing Straight Lines to Curves
- Copy/Paste to Create Composites
- Arranging Toolbars
- Renaming Tags
- Optical Metrics for Superscripts or Petite Capitals
- Tagging Composite Glyphs
- Exporting Web Fonts
- Editing Complex Glyphs
- Using A Background Image
- Sorting Files on Loading
- Restoring Windows and Toolbars
- Saving Font Validation Results
- Installing to a Custom Folder
- Checking for Errors
- Checking Kerning Pairs
- Using Shortcuts to Speed Workflow
- Scripts, Features, and Lookups
- Alternate and Winding Fill
- Trimming Kerning Pairs
- Adjusting the Accent Position
- Aligning Accents Using Guidelines
- Tagging Multiple Glyphs in Several Fonts
- Autokerning Large Fonts
- Finding Glyphs in Large Fonts
- Creating an All Caps Font
- Adding Programs to the Launch Externals Submenu
- Using the Preview Toolbar to Aid Kerning
- Using Access Keys
- Permalinks in Forum Update
- Overriding Automatic Glyph Naming
- Kerning of Scottish Names
- The Wonderful Windows Menu Key
- Comparing Font Styles in MainType
- Anchor-based Glyph Positioning and Auto-attach