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GettingStarted
CreatingaNewFont
Selectnewfromthefilemenu.Youwillbe
promptedforthenamesofyournewfont.
Allfieldsarerequired.Theseare:
Familyname: Arialforexample
Subfamily:
Regular,Bold,Italicetc.
Fullname:
Familyname+Subfamily
(egArialBold).ForaRegular
font,justputtheFamily
name(Arial)
Copyright:
Yourcopyrightdetails.
Thefirstfourglyphswillbeautomaticallycreatedandmapped(seeAppendixIIformoredetails).
Thefirstglyphalwaysrepresentstheundefinedcharacter–normallyanemptybox-likesymbol.
Youcaneditthesymbol,butyoucannotmapthisglyphtoanything(mappingtotheundefined
characterisequivalenttounmapping).
Thenexttwoglyphsaremappedtocertaincontrolcharacters,andthelastismappedtothe
spacecharacter.Thisglyphmustbeleftblank,butyoucanchangeitswidthtomatchthespacing
ofyourfont.
Pressthenewglyphbuttontostartcreatinganewfont.
or
Doubleclickononeofthecharactersinthemappingwindowandsayyestotheprompt–anew
glyphmappedtothatcharacterwillbecreated.
Youmaynowproceedtocreateglyphsusingtherangeoftoolsavailableinthetoolbox.
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