The Tools > Actions > Effect > Engrave action produces a live, editable filter, which fills the existing glyph contours with engraved lines of specified angle and thickness. If the Inside checkbox is turned on, FontLab applies the outline inside the contours. New If the Inside checkbox is turned off, FontLab applies the outline outside the contours. New With the Repeat setting, you can create multiple outlines, offset by the same distance as the specified thickness. You can specify the thickness of the outline and the join method. FontLab does this by creating parallel contours. With the Outline actions, you can create an outlined version of a glyph. The “wireframe” preview is useful if you want to preview the results of contour-specific operations. New You can toggle the Show nodes and outline button to show a filled or “wireframe”.You can also use Alt-scroll with the mouse wheel or pinch-zoom with the touchpad for additional zoom in/out. New You can now drag the top edge of the preview area (the lower part of the dialog) to enlarge the preview.Use the sidebar to change all aspects of the panel look and content. If the panel sidebar is open, only the Open/close sidebar and Echo/Custom text buttons are visible. Echo/Custom text: toggles between custom text and text that mirrors the current Glyph window text or Font window selection.Invert preview: inverts the colors of the preview area, and applies an automatic dark palette to the colored glyphs.Font size: toggles between Fit text, 1 line, 2 lines, 3 lines, and Predefined size (which you can specify numerically in the sidebar).Align text: toggles between centered, right-aligned, and left-aligned text.Content: toggles between text, glyph waterfall, and text waterfall.Open/close sidebar: open the sidebar to change all aspects of the panel look and content, or close it and use the new buttons to change the essential aspects.New If the Preview panel sidebar is closed, the right side of the Preview panel has buttons, which you can use to change the essential aspects of the panel look and content. Test & adjust ¶ Preview panel ¶ Quickly customize the Preview panel ¶ New The Transform panel now accepts values at higher decimal precision, which is useful for precise slant or rotation. New Use Contour > Coordinates > Round Selection to only round coordinates of the selected nodes or handles. If you work with fractional coordinates, you can use Contour > Coordinates > Apply Rounding to round all coordinates in the current layer to integer values. This is an alternative way of specifying the slant angle, which FontLab has used for italic angle in Font Info > Font Dimensions > Slope. New In Preferences > Grid, Guides and Hints > Slant angle, you can now use higher decimal precision, and you can define the grid slant angle as a X/Y slope ratio. The right Alt key is used to enter special characters. Also, on some Windows keyboard layouts, the custom keyboard shortucts assigned to Alt-key combinations only work with the left Alt key. FontLab uses these combinations to open the menus in the menu bar, for example, Alt C opens the Contour menu. In FontLab 8 for Windows, you cannot assign custom shortcut to Alt combinations with the letters C, E, F, G, H, M, S, T, V, W, X. The custom Alt-key shortcuts work in the Glyph and Font window, but if the Text tool is active or if your cursor is in a text field, the Alt key works as it normally does and inputs additional characters. For example, you can assign Alt B to Contour: Balance. New If you open Tools > Commands & Shortcuts dialog and click the gear button, you can now assign custom keyboard shortcuts that use only the Alt modifier key plus some normal key. Two Minute Customizing Your Metrics WindowĢ4 July 2022 Explore & prepare ¶ Commands & Shortcuts dialog ¶ Custom keyboard shortcuts with Alt ¶ Merging, Separating, Overlapping Shapes: Surgery Importing Settings and Shortcuts into FL 8Īvoid Mistakes By Following the Basic Vector Rules Renaming alternate glyphs when renaming a glyph
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