The Metrics Menu
This menu is not present in the Bitmap View, and the Metrics View only contains
"Center in Width" and "Thirds in Width".
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Center in Width
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In the Outline and Metrics Views this centers the current character (makes
its lbearing be the same as its rbearing) within the current width.
In the Font View the same thing is done for all selected characters.
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Thirds in Width
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This is very like Center in Width above... except that I happen to prefer
having a bit more white space after my characters than before them. So this
command makes the rbearing twice the lbearing (instead of making them be
the same).
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Set Width...
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The Set Width command allows you to change the width of the current character
(in the outline view) or all selected characters (in the font view). You
may either set the width to an absolute value, change the width by adding
a constant value to it, or multiply it by a scale factor.
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Set LBearing...
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The Set LBearing command is similar to the Set Width command above, the dialog
is pretty much the same except that it applies to the left side bearing rather
than to the width.
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Set RBearing...
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The Set RBearing command is similar to the Set Width command above, the dialog
is pretty much the same except that it applies to the right side bearing
rather than to the width.
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Auto Width...
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This command is only available in the font view.
It attempts to guess reasonable values
for the widths (more accurately the left and right bearings) of the specified
characters.
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Auto Kern...
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This command is only available from the font view.
It attempts to gues reasonable kerning
values between the specified characters.
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Kern By Classes...
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This command is only available from the font and metrics views. It provides
the user with a dialog to manipulate
kerning classes.
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Remove All Kern Pairs
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In the font view removes all kern pairs (and kern classes) in the font.
In the outline character view removes all kern pairs where the current character
is the left hand character.
Not present in the Metrics or Bitmap views.
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VKern By Classes...
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This command is only available from the font and metrics views. It provides
the user with a dialog to manipulate
vertical kerning classes.
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VKern From HKern
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This command is only available from the font and metrics views. It removes
all current vertical kerning information, then it looks through the font
and for each pair of horizontally kerned characters where both have a 'vert'
or 'vrt2' feature it produces a vertical kerning pair for the vertical versions
of those characters. (That is: If
A
+V
are horizontally
kerned by -50 and A
=> A.vert
and V
=> V.vert
then this command will produce a vertical kerning
pair between A.vert
+ V.vert
with a value of -50)
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Remove All VKern Pairs
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In the font view removes all vertical kern pairs (and kern classes) in the
font.
In the outline character view removes all kern pairs where the current character
is the left hand character.
Not present in the Metrics or Bitmap views.
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Set Vertical Advance...
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If vertical metrics are enabled for the font this will be active in the font
and outline character view.
It behaves exactly like Set Width... except it works on the vertical advance
rather than the horizontal advance (width).
Other menus
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