Welcome to the FontLab Forum!
Here you can exchange ideas, ask questions, download files and ask for changes in future releases of FontLab Studio, Fontographer and other FontLab Ltd. products. This place is visited by all FontLab developers, so you have a good chance to get a quick response to your post.

See the What's New section for recent changes! This forum is available as a plain e-mail disccussion list. See instructions. FontLab is a product and registered trademark of FontLab Ltd. This forum is hosted at MSN Groups.

Recommended Reading (Tips & Tricks):

• Font Family Naming to know how to set family and style names in large families
• Setting Font Family Metrics to know how to avoid line height differences within your font family (revised)
• Creating ATR-compatible Mac suitcases to know how to make Mac Type 1 fonts right
• Glyph Naming and Encoding to know why it is good to keep to some recommendation
• Generate Glyphs tricks to know how you can quickly add hundreds of accented characters
• Using Illustrator to draw typefaces to know how to get your artwork into FontLab
• Working with different types of kerning to know what class kerning and flat kerning is
• Adding glyphs for characters without precomposed Unicode values
• Unofficial FontLab/Python API Reference for those who want to write macros
• and obviously, the user's manual of the application!

Adam Twardoch
Forum asst. manager
Fontlab Ltd.

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