
Patches, suggestions, and corrections are welcome. This book is free culture, hosted on GitHub.

When Things Go Wrong With FontForge Itself Prev Installing FontForge Next General UI Introduction To regain control of window positions, use the free, libre, open source ShiftIt utility to assign keyboard shortcuts to set window positions. Sudo cp -f /Applications/FontForge.app/Contents/Resources/FontForge.icns /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/Resources/X11.icns | sudo touch /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.appįontForge isn’t a native Mac app, so window handling can be slightly “off,” especially on dual monitor systems. To change these keys open and edit the default text file, located here: Or, you might just want to customize them to be the way that you expect. If you do not use a US English keyboard, you may find some of the keyboard shortcuts are silly. These can be accessed immediately by pressing Ctrl + Alt and that key.įor example, if a dialog asks you if you’re OK, press Ctrl + Alt + o. Many dialog and menu items have one letter that is u nderlined.
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(When testing your font on Ubuntu, you can rapidly install it by copying it to the /.fonts directory.) Now that the characters are coming out the right size, you need to set line-spacing. Generate and test your font, to ensure it reaches the desired length alongside your reference text.

FontForge can be fine-tuned in various ways. All the glyphs will be scaled to the new metrics.
