Dialogs

General

• Generate Font Dialog
  • Generate Mac Family
  • Generate TTC
  • SVG fonts
• Display & Print Fonts
• Groups of Glyphs
  • Display by Groups
  • Define Groups
• Finding shapes within glyphs
• Select By Lookup Subtable
• Preferences Dialog
  • Configuration Files
  • The Preferences Window…
  • Other ways of configuring

Info

• Font Info
  • The histogram dialog
  • Names
  • General
  • Layers
  • PostScript Unique ID
  • Private – (font-wide postscript hinting)
  • OS/2
    • GSUB/morx Ordering
    • OS/2 Metrics
    • OS/2 Sub/Superscripts
    • PANOSE
    • Charsets
  • TTF Names
  • StyleSet Names
  • Grid Fit (‘gasp’ table)
  • TeX
  • Size
  • Comment
  • FONTLOG
  • Mark Classes & Mark Sets
  • Lookups
  • WOFF (Web Open Font Format)
  • Mac Style & FOND
  • Mac Features
  • Dates
  • Unicode Ranges
• Glyph Info
  • Encoding and Unicode data
  • Glyph Comment
  • Simple Glyph Positioning
  • Pair-wise Glyph Positioning (kerning) (GPOS)
  • Glyph Simple Substitution (GSUB, morx)
  • Glyph Multiple & Alternate Substitution
  • Glyph Ligature Substitution
  • Counter Masks
  • Components
  • TeX & Math
  • Variants
  • Tile Size
• Get Info
  • Point Info
    • Hint Mask
      • Active Hints
  • Spiro Point Info
  • Anchor Points Info
  • Reference Info
  • Image Info
• BDF Info Dialog
• The baseline dialog, and the OpenType BASE table
• The Justify dialog
• Math typesetting information
  • Constants
  • Glyph specific information
    • Extended Shapes
    • Italic Correction
    • Top Accent Attachment
    • Math Kerning
    • Vertical and Horizontal Glyph Variants
    • Vertical and Horizontal Glyph Construction
• Multiple Master Dialog
  • What is a multiple master font?
  • The Dialog
    • An Apple distortable font.
  • A suggestion

Editing

• Auto Width
  • Auto Kern
    • The python GlyphSeparationHook
• Insert Text Dialog
• Multi Layered Editing of Type3 and SVG fonts
  • Multi Layered editing in the outline view
    • Images
    • Clipping Path
  • The Layer Info dialog
    • Gradients
    • Patterns
• Stylistic Transformations on Fonts
  • Bold
  • Point Size
  • SmallCaps
  • Italic
  • Oblique
  • Extended/Condensed
  • The Change Weight dialog
  • Italic dialog
  • Condense/Extend dialog
  • Change X-Height dialog
  • Change Glyphs dialog
  • Small Capitals dialog
  • Subscipt/Superscript dialog
    • Caveat
• Tile Path
  • Tile Pattern
• Transform Dialog
  • Non-Linear Transformations
  • Point of View Projection
• Viewing and Editing truetype instructions in FontForge.
  • Editing the ‘cvt ‘ table directly

Lookups and Kerning

• Manipulating OpenType Lookups
  • Contextual substitutions
  • Substitution by State Machine
  • Pair Positioning (kerning)
    • Kerning format dialog
    • Kerning pairs
    • Undo System Interaction
  • Anchor Positioning
    • Contextual Positioning
    • Kerning by State Machine
• The Kerning Pairs dialog
• The Anchor Control dialog
  • Device Tables
• Editing Contextual or Chaining Contextual lookups
  • What is a Contextual Positioning lookup?
  • What is a Contextual Substitution lookup?
  • More complete descriptions
  • How do these relate to Apple Advanced Typography features?
  • Creating a contextual lookup
  • Editing a lookup
    • Format
    • Simple Coverage
    • Setting a coverage table
    • Coverage
      • Creating or editing a lookup position pair
    • Simple Glyphs
    • Glyphs
    • Selecting glyphs
    • Simple Classes
    • Classes
    • A list of Class numbers
• The Mac State Machine Dialog
  • Editing Transitions
• Show Advanced Typographic Features

Validation

• Finding common font problems automagically
  • Non-Integral Coordinates
  • X near [val]
  • Y near [val]
  • Y near standard heights
  • Control points near horizontal/vertical/italic
  • Control points beyond spline
  • Irrelevant control points
  • Points Too Close
  • Points Too Far Apart
  • Open Paths
  • Intersecting Paths
  • Edges near horizontal/vertical/italic
  • Path Direction
  • Check Missing Extrema
  • More Points Than
  • Flipped References
  • Refs with bad ttf transformation matrices
  • Mixed contours and references
  • Refs with bad ps transformation matrices
  • Refs Deeper Than
  • Refs with out of date point matching
  • Hints controlling no points
  • Points near hint edges
  • Hint width near [val]
  • Almost stem3 hint
  • Show exact stem3
  • More Hints Than
  • Overlapped Hints
  • Missing Bitmaps
  • Bitmap/Outline Advance Width Mismatch
  • Check Multiple Unicode
  • Check Multiple Name
  • Check Unicode/Name mismatch
  • Glyph BB Above
  • Glyph BB Below
  • Glyph BB Right Of
  • Glyph BB Left Of
  • Check Advance
  • Check Vertical Advance
  • Missing Glyph Names
  • Missing scripts in features
  • Check substitutions for empty chars
  • Check for incomplete mark to base subtables
  • Check for CIDs defined twice
  • Check for undefined CIDs
• Font Validation window