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Fit
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In the outline and bitmap views this will scale the current glyph to the
largest setting where it all fits in the view.
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Zoom Out
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Not in the font view. Centered on the middle selection if there is one, else
the middle of the view.
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Zoom In
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Not in the font view. Centered on the middle selection if there is one, else
the middle of the view.
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Next Glyph
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In the metrics, outline and bitmap view this changes the current glyph to
be the next one in the font.
In the font view this selects the next glyph in the font (and scrolls, if
necessary, to display that glyph).
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Prev Glyph
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In the metrics, outline and bitmap view this changes the current glyph to
be the previous one in the font.
In the font view this selects the next glyph in the font (and scrolls, if
necessary, to display that glyph).
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Next Defined Glyph
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Similar to Next Glyph, except it moves to the next glyph defined in the font.
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Prev Defined Glyph
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Similar to Prev Glyph, except it moves to the previous glyph defined in the
font.
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Former Glyph
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Changes the glyph window to look at whatever glyph was being edited there
before this one (one level of history).
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Substitutions
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Brings up a sub menu showing all the GSUB type 1 and type 3 substitutions
(simple and alternate) you have defined for the selected glyph and allows
you to change the glyph as directed by the substitution. Also contains an
entry to return you to the original glyph.
Substitutions may be set with the Element->Glyph
Info command.
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Goto
Replace Glyph...
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In the Font, Outline, Bitmap and Metrics views this brings up a dialog in
which you may type either:
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A name of a glyph in the current font
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A number (in either decimal or hex) indicating the glyph you are interested
in, in the current encoding
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A hex number ,preceded by "U+" or "uni" or "u", indicating the character
you are interested in in unicode.
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A decimal number, preceded by "glyph" ,indicating the glyph index in the
original glyph list.
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A ku ten representation of a CJK font (two comma separated numbers)
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A standard name (which need not be used in the current font) but which can
be mapped to a unicode value.
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For 2/4 byte encodings you will also be shown a pull-down list of unicode
ranges (Things like "Greek", "Katakana", "Hangul Compatibility Jamo") and
you can select one of the range names.
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Arabic letters may also be named as:
afii57442.isolated or
0x642.initial
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A single unicode character
In the font view the view will scroll so that this glyph is visible and it
will be selected
In the bitmap, outline and metrics views, the current glyph will change to
be the one specified.
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Insert Glyph Before...
Insert Glyph After...
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In the metrics view this brings up a dialog similar to the previous one allowing
you to enter a glyph by name or encoding either before or after the currently
selected position.
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Layers
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A submenu which only appears in the font view. It lets you chose which layer
to display in the font view.
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Find In Font View
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In the outline, bitmap and metrics views this will scroll the associated
font view so that the current glyph is displayed (and selected) in the fontview.
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Show ATT
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Only in the font view. Brings up a dlg showing
the advanced typographic tables (GPOS/GSUB or morx/kern) that FontForge supports.
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Display Substitutions
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Only in the font view. This allows you to select a simple substitution, any
glyph with that substitution attached will be displayed as the substituted
glyph. Any glyph without such a substitution will be left blank. Double clicking
on a glyph will either go the substituted version or will create a
substituted version and go to that. (However almost no other commands will
be aware of this mapping, which will probably be confusing).
Displaying small caps ('smcp' substitution)
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Combinations
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A submenu containing
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Kern Pairs
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This brings up a dialog showing all kerning pairs
in the current font (or, if invoked from the outline glyph view, a list
of all kerning pairs involving that glyph). You may alter kerning pairs here
too.
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Anchored Pairs
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This may have a sub-menu of its own containing all the anchor classes for
this font and an entry "All". You may choose to see all combinations of glyphs
from a given anchor class, or all combinations from all anchored classes.
If invoked from the outline glyph view it will provide a list of all anchored
combinations involving that glyph.
Selecting a combination and double clicking on it will bring up an
Anchor Control dialog.
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Anchor Control
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Only in the outline view. Has a submenu of all anchor points in this glyph.
Selecting one brings upt the Anchor Control
dialog.
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Anchor Glyph at Point
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Only in the outline view. Allows you to attach and display another glyph
at the selected anchor point.
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Ligatures
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This brings up a dialog showing the names of all ligatures and of the glyphs
that compose them (if invoked from the outline glyph view, a list of all
ligatures containing that glyph). Double clicking on an entry will bring
up a window showing that ligature.
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Label Glyph By
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In the font view each glyph has a label above it. This may be either:
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An image of the glyph (from a conventional font)
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The name of the glyph
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The unicode code point associated with the glyph
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The glyph's encoding (in hex)
Note that when the glyphs are small (the 24 pixel view, for example) there
may not be room for the entire name of each glyph (or even for the encoding),
so the labels may be truncated.
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View H. Metrics...
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In the font view this will control which of the horizontal metrics lines
are draw across the displayed glyphs. In the outline glyph view the same
functionality is available from one of the palettes.
See the font view for more information
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View V. Metrics...
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In the font view this will control which of the vertical metrics lines are
draw across the displayed glyphs. In the outline glyph view the same
functionality is available from one of the palettes. (This will be greyed
out if your font does not have vertical metrics in it).
See the font view for more information
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32x8 cell window
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In the font view you may explicitly set the window size so that there are
32 glyph cells horizontally and 8 vertically.
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16x4 cell window
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In the font view you may explicitly set the window size so that there are
16 glyph cells horizontally and 4 vertically.
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8x2 cell window
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In the font view you may explicitly set the window size so that there are
8 glyph cells horizontally and 2 vertically.
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24 pixel outline
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In the font view you may choose how large you want the rasterized representation
of the outline view to be. The default is to rasterize it on a 24 pixel block.
If this item is checked then a 24 pixel version of the outline font is displayed,
selecting it will display a 24 pixel version of the font.
(Exactly one em-square of the glyph will be displayed, if the glyph extends
above the ascent or below the descent those features will be clipped)
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36 pixel outline
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Similar to the above but for a 36 pixel version.
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48 pixel outline
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Similar to the above but for a 48 pixel version.
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72 pixel outline
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Similar to the above but for a 72 pixel version.
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96 pixel outline
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Similar to the above but for a 96 pixel version.
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AntiAlias
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Only in the font and metrics view. Toggles between whether the font displayed
in the view is a bitmapped font or an anti-aliased font. An Anti-aliased
font shows levels of grey rather than just black and white. It often looks
better than a bitmap, but it is slower to generate and draw.
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Vertical
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Only in the metrics view. Toggles between displaying horizontal and vertical
metrics. (Only available if Element->Font Info->General->Has Vertical
Metrics is set).
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Fit To Em
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Only in the font view. The fontview will either display glyphs scaled so
that the font's bounding box fits in the window, or so that the em fits in
the window. The advantage of the first method is that you see all of each
glyph, the advantage of the second is that you can see how the letter sizes
compare from font to font.
(This is something of a simplification. In bounding box mode the displayed
font is scaled so that the vertical size (as found in the bounding box) fits
it the window. Very wide glyphs will still not fit horizontally. Also the
scaling is not updated when glyphs change, if you have changed the maximum
bounds of the font you might want to force a rescale by toggling this
mode)
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Bitmap Magnification...
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In the font view. When displaying a bitmap font it is sometimes desirable
to look at the font with a greater magnification than normal.
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<list of bitmap pixel sizes, if any>
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In the font view or metrics view there is a list of all generated bitmap
fonts. You may select to have one of them displayed in the view rather than
a rasterized version of the outline font. If one is checked then that one
is currently displayed, if you select one then it will be displayed.
In CID keyed fonts this list will not be present.
If your font database includes some greymap fonts then these will be listed
here too, as usual they will be displayed as
<pixel-size>@<bits-per-pixel>
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Show/Hide Grid
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In the Metrics View this entry allows you to turn on or off the lines marking
the edges of the glyphs on display. There are 4 levels
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Show Grid -- Always show the full grid lines
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Partial Grid -- Show short lines at the top and bottom of the window so the
line will not be distracting when examining spacing
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Hide when moving -- Show the full grid line normally, but it will vanish
while the user adjusts spacing with the mouse
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Hode Grid -- Always hide the grid.
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Outline
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In the Metrics View this will be checked when the outline font is bring
displayed. Selecting it will display the outline font (rather than a bitmap
font).
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Number Points
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In the Outline view, this small sub-menu allows you to control whether point
numbers are displayed next to points in the foreground view. This is primarily
for TrueType, where the instructions use these numbers to refer to the points
when they do grid-fitting. The numbering scheme is a little different depending
on what the expected output (input) will be, so we have a sub-menu listing
output types.
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Show Grid Fit
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Show Grid Fit
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In the Outline view and only if the freetype library is available. Brings
up a dialog which allows you to control
whether a grid fit version of the splines in the font is displayed.
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Bigger Point Size
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In the Outline view, if grid fitting is turned on, this will increase the
point size (note, this is slightly different from increasing the pixel size).
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Smaller Point Size
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In the Outline view, if grid fitting is turned on, this will decrease the
point size.
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Anti-Alias
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In the Outline view, if grid fitting is turned on, this will toggle whethe
the display is in anti alias mode.
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Off
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Turns off grid fitting.
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Show
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This submenu is only in the outline glyph view.
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Points
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This hides or displays the points in the outline glyph view.
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Show Control Point Info
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In the Outline view, when you move a control
point this mode pops up a little window showing various bits of information
about the control point you are editing.
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Extrema
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In the Outline view,
in postscript
and truetype fonts (in almost all cases) should have their horizontal and
vertical extrema at the endpoints of splines. This setting will mark extremal
endpoints by coloring them a dull purple to remind you that you should not
delete them. If an extremum occurs somewhere other than an end point a crosshair
will be drawn around it. You might consider doing
Element->Add Extrema in this
case (or you might not, this can be ok in some cases).
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Points of Inflection
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In the Outline view, points of inflection occur where the change in the slope
of the curve (second derivative) changes sign. Quadratic splines (truetype)
cannot represent points of inflection. If you have a postscript font which
you intend to convert to truetype it can be helpful to know where these difficult
points lie. (the cubic->quadratic approximation routines will often add
intermediate points at these points of inflection)
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Almost Horizontal/Vertical Lines
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If a line is almost, but not quite horizontal or vertical then draw the line
in a different color to show visually that it should be fixed.
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Almost Horizontal/Vertical Curves
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If a curve is almost, but not quite horizontal or vertical at one of its
endpoints then draw little tick marks at the end point to indicate this.
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(Define Almost)
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Define what "almost" means, as used in the above two commands.
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Side Bearings
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Draws little lines to mark the left and right side bearings of a glyph.
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Fill
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In the Outline view this fills in the glyph outline as you edit it. (this
can be very slow. If the glyph is too big (too magnified) then filling will
not be done).
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Preview
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A preview mode hides points, hints, various other stuff and fills the outline
to give a better feeel of the glyph's looks. Besides usual shortcut toggling
it on and off — Ctrl+[key above Tab] (eg, Ctrl+`
on a US keyboard) — it can be also used by holding that [key above
Tab] down (unless quick navigation is enabled).
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Palettes
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Tools
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If this item is checked then the tools palette (in the outline and bitmap
views) is visible. Selecting it toggles whether the palette is visible or
not.
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Layers
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If this item is checked then the layers palette (in the outline and bitmap
views) is visible. Selecting it toggles whether the palette is visible or
not.
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Shades
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Only in the bitmap view, and only if editing grey-scale (anti-aliased) fonts.
Controls whether the shades of grey palette is visible or not.
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Dock Palettes
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Allows you to control whether you want the palettes free standing or docked
in the current view.
The window manager under gnome does not handle this properly. If you want
docked palettes under gnome: Open a window with palettes, select docked palettes
(the palettes will not dock), close the window, reopen the window. The palettes
are now docked and should be from here on.
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Glyph Tabs
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Controls whether the outline glyph view has a set of tabs of past glyphs
viewed in that window.
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Rulers
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In the Glyph Outline View toggles whether rulers appear at the top and to
the left of the editing area.
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Horizontal Hints
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Controls whether horizontal hints are visible
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Vertical Hints
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Controls whether vertical hints are visible
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Diagonal Hints
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Controls whether diagonal hints are visible
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BlueValues
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Controls whether the glyph's PostScript BlueValues are visible
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FamilyBlues
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Controls whether the glyph's PostScript FamilyBlues are visible.
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Anchors
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Controls whether Anchor points are visible
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Horizontal Metrics
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Controls whether horizontal metrics lines (the width line) are visible.
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Vertical Metrics
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Controls whether vertical metrics lines (the vertical advance line) are visible.
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Snap Outlines to Pixel Grid
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Cairo can draw contours with sub-pixel resolution -- which means that if
a spline's end point falls somewhere between two pixels then cairo will draw
a bit of the contour on both pixels this leads to an often undesirable level
of fuzziness. In some sense it provides a more accurate indication of where
the spline goes. This menu item can be used to turn that on and off.
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Bigger Pixel Size
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In the bitmap view this displays the current glyph in next larger bitmap
font (if there is one)
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Smaller Pixel Size
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In the bitmap view this displays the current glyph in next smaller bitmap
font (if there is one)
