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A | About PfaEdit AccentCenterLowest preference item AccentOffsetPercent preference item acorn2sfd Advance Width Definition Setting in outline character view Setting via menu item alternate substitution (in GSUB) AlwaysGenApple preference item Anchor Classes Definition Creating with Font Info Overview Creating Anchor points (or attachment points) Anchor points Overview Creating Apple mode in ttf generation preference item ArrowMoveSize preference item Ascender Definition Ascent Definition Setting in Font Info AskBDFResolution preference item AutoHint Menu Command Scripting Command Preference items AutoHint before rasterizing AutoHint before generating fonts AutoLBearingSync preference item AutoTrace menu command argument preference item environment variable AutoTraceArgs preference item AutotraceAsk preference item AutoWidthSync preference item
B | Baseline Baseline BDF -- Bitmap distribution format extensions for greymap support generating creating a bitmap font -- see bitmap font Bézier curve or Bézier splines Definition Bitmap view Overview In Depth Bitmap fonts Creating in pfaedit editing Black letter Definition BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode) BlueValues Setting with Font Info Bold Definition Using the metafont command to create `BROWSER` environment variable Bugs Lacks Outstanding Reporting bugs to me Build Instructions (from source code)
C | Cap-height Definition CFF Definition chaining contextual positioning (in GPOS) Creating Modifying chaining contextual substitution (in GSUB) Creating Modifying Character Definition Character set Definition CharCenterHighest preference item CID Definition CID-keyed font Definition CJK Definition CJKV Definition Command line arguments Compact File Format (CFF) Condensed Definition Using the metafont command to create contextual positioning (in GPOS) Creating Modifying contextual glyph substitution (in morx) In some cases this can be done. See the OpenType Contextual Substitution tables contextual glyph insertion (in morx) (not supported yet) contextual substitution (in GSUB) Creating Modifying CopyMetaData menu preference item Copyright Of PfaEdit Setting a font's copyright with Font Info cursive attachment (in GPOS) cursive connection (in morx) Cygwin Installing on windows
D | Descender Definition Descent Definition Setting in Font Info Didot point Definition See also Point Downloads binary executables source code dependencies documentation cidmap files DumpGlyphMap preference item
E | em Definition Setting with Font Info em unit Definition en Definition Encoding Definition Setting with font info User defined Environment Variables eps files (encapsilated postscript) importing them into an outline character exporting them from an outline character Error Recovery Even-Odd fill rule Extended Definition Using the metafont command to create
F | Family Definition Familyname Setting with Font Info FAQ fig files (generated by xfig) importing them into an outline character exporting them from an outline character Files used by PfaEdit Flex Hints The criteria for flex hints are given on pages 72-73 of Adobe's T1_Spec.pdf. The UpdateFlex preference item Font Definition Font Family Definition Font File Formats FontLab Fontname Setting with Font Info Fontographer Font View Overview In depth FoundryName preference item for bdf preference item for ttf Fractur Definition FreeType
G | GDEF opentype table Glossary Glyph Definition GlyphMap GPOS opentype table Gothic Definition Grid Fitting Definition and truetype hinting menu command to show results of GreekNames preference item Grotesque Definition GSUB opentype table
H | Hints Definition Longer description Menu AutoHint AutoHint preference item HintForGen preference item Font-Wide hints BlueValues StemSnap Order in which to use PfaEdit's commands to hint a postscript font. TrueType instructions Description Dialog Help Specifying a browser HelpDir preference item HintForGen preference item Hot Keys
I | Ikarus Installing fonts for Macintosh OS/X Older macs TeX Unix & X Windows Instructions, TrueType Images Importing into background layer Example Example 2 Importing into bitmap character Exporting bitmap (or anti-aliased) Indic style rearrangement (in morx) (not supported yet) Install Instructions On Mac Italic Definition Italic Angle Setting with Font Info ItalicConstrained preference item Italic Correction
J | JoinSnap preference item
K | kern truetype table See also GPOS opentype table Kerning Definition In User's Guide Vertical Kerning Kern pair Definition Setting kern pairs from the metrics view Setting kern pairs with auto kern Examining kern pairs from the metrics view Examining kern pairs from the combinations menu
L | Left side bearing Definition Setting the left side bearing from the menu Setting the left side bearing from a script Lemur Definition LGC Definition ligature Definition creating with Char Info creating with Default ATT ligature substitution (in GSUB) ligature substitution (in morx) Line Gap Setting with Font Info License Of PfaEdit Setting the TrueType License & License URL names LoadedFontsAsNew preference item LocalEncoding preference item Localization See also X-Resources
M | Macintosh specifics Installing Generating Mac Fonts Generating Mac Font Families Mac Features to OTF Features conversion preference item Mac Features in morx table Mailing lists mark to base (in GPOS) mark to ligature (in GPOS) mark to mark (in GPOS) MetaFont See MF (for Knuth's program) menu command MF Converting .mf files into a format PfaEdit can use environment variable argument preference item MfArgs preference item MfClearBg preference item MfShowErr preference item Menus File Edit Points Element Hints View Metrics CID Window Help Menu Hot Keys Metrics View Overview In Depth Monospace Definition morx truetype table See also GSUB opentype table morx feature/setting correspondance to otf feature tags multiple substitution (in GSUB)
N | NewCharset preference item NewEmSize preference item NewFontsQuadratic preference item non-contextual glyph substitution (in morx) non-zero winding number rule
O | Oblique Definition OpenType Definition Generating opentype fonts OpenType Advanced typography tables (GPOS, GSUB and GDEF). OpenType tables Adobe's specification Outline Character View overview in depth Overshoot Definition
P | pair adjustment (in GPOS) Panose Definition Setting with Font Info Path Direction PfaEdit 'PfEd' table Pica point Definition See Also Point Point Definition Point Size Definition PostScript Definition Adobe's online reference manual PreferCJKEncoding preference item Preference items Getting values of in a script Setting values of in a script Menu command
Q | Quit menu command scripting command
R | Reference Definition Description creating with Copy Reference and Paste commands ResourceFile preference item reverse chaining contextual substitution (in GSUB) (not supported) Right side bearing Definition Setting from the metrics menu
S | Sans Serif Definition Script Description -- as a generic term for alphabets, syllabaries and ideograph writing systems As a set of commands for PfaEdit to run Executing a script within PfaEdit Executing a script from the command line script sub-menu Description Preferences for it Scripting Script menu Preferences to define it menu Serif Definition sfddiff single adjustment (in GPOS) single substitution (in GSUB) SnapDistance preference item Spline Definition Longer definition with example Bézier cubic splines quadratic splines Spline font database format StdHW/StdVW Setting with Font Info StemSnapH/V Setting with Font Info StopAtJoin preference item Stroked character example Expand Stroke Freehand tool Style Definition Sourceforge Syllabary Definition
T | TeX Installing fonts for TeX True Type Definition Generating truetype fonts TrueType Advanced typography tables (GPOS, GSUB and GDEF or kern, morx and prop). TrueType tables Apple's specification TrueType Instructions See Hints above TTF See True Type above TTF Foundry preference item Tutorial Type 1 Definition Adobe's Type1 specification. Type 2 Definition Adobe's Type2 spec. See Also Compact File Format (CFF) Type 3 Definition Type 0 Definition Type 42 Adobe's spec Typewriter Definition
U | Undo menu item UndoDepth preference item UniqueID Setting with Font Info Unicode As used in PfaEdit BMP UpdateFlex preference item
V | Vertical Metrics Setting with Font Info Setting in the character view Vertical Origin Setting with Font Info
W | Wacom Weight Definition Width Definition Advance width Vertical Advance Width Setting in outline character view Setting via menu item Winding number rule Windows specifics See cygwin
X | X-height Definition xfig importing fig files into an outline character exporting fig files from an outline character X Resources XUID Setting with Font Info Preference item XUID-Base preference item
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