FontCreator 5.5 © 1997 - 2006 by High-Logic Software, all rights reserved. FontCreator Manual © 1997 - 2006 by High-Logic Software, all rights reserved. All rights reserved. No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems - without the written permission of the publisher. FontCreator is a trademark of High-Logic. Microsoft, Windows and OpenType are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Apple, the Apple Logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks and TrueType is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the United States and other countries. Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. The Unicode Character Database is provided as is by Unicode, Inc. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it. In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document. May 2006 Contents I Table of Contents Part I Getting Started 1 Welcome to FontCreator................................................................................................................................... 5.5 2 2 What's New in................................................................................................................................... FontCreator 5.5 2 3 Technical Support................................................................................................................................... 3 4 Registration ................................................................................................................................... 4 Part II Quick Start Tutorial 1 Your First Font................................................................................................................................... -- a Brief Tutorial 6 2 Edit a Glyph - ...................................................................................................................................Character A 8 3 Edit a Glyph - ...................................................................................................................................Character B 9 4 Test and Install................................................................................................................................... the Font 10 Part III About Fonts 1 TrueType ................................................................................................................................... 13 2 OpenType ................................................................................................................................... 13 3 Font Copyright................................................................................................................................... 13 Part IV Editing Fonts 1 Opening, Creating................................................................................................................................... and Saving Fonts 16 Open a Font .......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Create a Font.......................................................................................................................................................... 17 Save a Font .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Close a Font .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 2 Editing Options................................................................................................................................... 18 Undo Command.......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Redo Command.......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Repeat Your Last.......................................................................................................................................................... Action 19 Finding a Glyph.......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Bookmarks .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 3 Editing Fonts................................................................................................................................... 20 Using the Glyph.......................................................................................................................................................... Overview 20 Glyph Properties.......................................................................................................................................................... 21 Used By .......................................................................................................................................................... 22 Insert Characters.......................................................................................................................................................... 23 Insert Glyphs.......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Copy and Paste.......................................................................................................................................................... Glyphs 24 Adding a New.......................................................................................................................................................... Character - the EURO Sign 25 Font Name .......................................................................................................................................................... 26 Font Type .......................................................................................................................................................... 26 Font Embedding.......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Unicode versus.......................................................................................................................................................... Symbol 27 © 1997 - 2006 by High-Logic Software, all rights reserved. I II FontCreator Help Monospaced ..........................................................................................................................................................versus Proportional 28 Recommended.......................................................................................................................................................... Glyphs 28 Sorting Glyphs.......................................................................................................................................................... 31 Incomplete Glyphs.......................................................................................................................................................... 32 4 Editing Glyphs................................................................................................................................... 32 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 32 Bearings .......................................................................................................................................................... 33 Empty Glyphs.......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Simple Glyphs.......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Introduction......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Contours ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 Points ......................................................................................................................................................... 38 Join and Split........................................................................................................................................................