In the Metrics View this menu is greyed out. The commands are only available
in text fields.
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Undo
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In the outline view and the bitmap view this will undo the last command.
The number of commands that may be undone for any glyph is controlled by
the UndoDepth preference item.
In the font and metrics views, this does NOT undo the last command. It undoes
the last operation on all selected characters.
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Redo
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In the outline view and the bitmap view this will redo the last command undone.
Up to twelve commands may be redone (after that they get thrown away)
In the font and metrics views, this does NOT undo the last command. It undoes
the last operation on all selected characters.
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Cut
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In the font view this command puts the foreground of all selected characters
into the clipboard and then deletes them. Depending on the setting of
Copy From it will either refer all characters (bitmap
and outline) corresponding to this entry, or just the character being displayed.
In the Outline View this will copy any selected points, References, or Images
into the clipboard and then delete them. If a point is removed from a path
then the path will be broken at there, see the Merge
command for information on how to leave the path whole but without the point.
(if there is no selection nothing happens)
In the Bitmap View this will copy the selection into the clipboard and then
delete it. If there is no selection nothing happens.
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Copy
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In the font view this command puts the foreground and hints of all selected
characters into the clipboard. Depending on the setting of Copy
From it will either copy all glyphs (bitmap and outline) corresponding
to this entry, or just the glyph being displayed. Normally it will not copy
a character's name, but if Copy From->Char Name
is set then it will copy the name as well.
In the Outline View this will copy any selected points, References, or Images
into the clipboard. If there is no selection everything in the current layer
will go into the clipboard.
In the Bitmap View this will copy the selection into the clipboard, if there
is no selection everything is copied.
To external applications selected points (and associated contours) will be
exported to the clipboard with format "image/eps", while a selected image
will be exported with formats "image/png" and "image/bmp". If you Copy a
series of characters into the clipboard, the only the first one will be exported
to external applications. If the clipboard contains a single point, then
this will also be exported in STRING format (giving the coordinates of the
point); the intent is to make it easier to people to identify the point.
See the section on selections
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Copy Reference
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In the font view this command puts a reference to all selected characters
into the clipboard.
In the Outline View this will copy a reference to the current character into
the clipboard (only available in foreground mode).
This command is not available in the Bitmap View.
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Copy Width
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In the Font View this command copies the widths of all selected characters
and stores them in the clipboard.
In the Outline View this command copies the width of the current character
and stores it in the clipboard.
This command is not available in the Bitmap View.
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Copy VWidth
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In the Font View this command copies the vertical widths of all selected
characters and stores them in the clipboard.
In the Outline View this command copies the vertical width of the current
character and stores it in the clipboard.
This command is not available in the Bitmap View.
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Copy LBearing
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In the Font View this command copies the left side bearings of all selected
characters and stores them in the clipboard.
In the Outline View this command copies the left side bearing of the current
character and stores it in the clipboard.
This command is not available in the Bitmap View.
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Copy RBearing
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In the Font View this command copies the right side bearings of all selected
characters and stores them in the clipboard.
In the Outline View this command copies the right side bearing of the current
character and stores it in the clipboard.
This command is not available in the Bitmap View.
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Copy Glyph Features
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Available in font and outline views. This command allows you to select features
(including kerning) of the current glyph and later paste those features into
another glyph.
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Copy Grid Fit
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Only available in the outline character view and only if
View->Show Grid Fit is selected.
This will place a copy of the grid fit version of the character into the
clipboard.
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Paste
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In the Font View this command will paste whatever is in the clipboard into
the foregrounds of all selected characters (exception: if the clipboard contains
an image it will not go into the foreground), clearing out whatever was there.
If there are more selected characters than there is information in the clipboard
then the clipboard will be repeated until all selected characters have had
something pasted in them (that is if characters A and B were selected when
the copy happened and now characters C, D and E are selected, the C will
get A, D will get B and E will also get A). If exactly one character is selected
but the clipboard contains more that one character, the the selection will
be extended so that enough characters are selected that something may be
pasted in each.
If the clipboard contains outline information then that information will
go into the character outline regardless of the setting of Copy From. If
the clipboard contains a bitmap and the display is set to outline then the
bitmap is pasted into the bitmap font it was copied from (ie. the one with
the same pixel size), if the clipboard contains a bitmap and the display
is set to a bitmap then the bitmap will be pasted into the currently displayed
font. If the clipboard contains a bitmap of a size which does not exist in
our database, then you will be asked if you want to create a bitmap font
to put the bitmap into.
In the Outline View this command will paste whatever is in the clipboard
to the current editing layer.
In the Bitmap View this command will flatten any floating selection and paste
the contents of the clipboard into a new floating selection.
If the clipboard is owned by an external application FontForge will attempt
to Paste the following selection types (the bitmap view does not currently
respond to external clipboards):
"image/png", "image/bmp" |
background images |
"image/eps" |
as spline data |
See the section on selections
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Paste Into
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Only available in the fontview. Just like Paste, except it does not clear
the contents of the character before adding to it.
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Paste After
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Only available in the fontview. Pastes the contents of the clipboard into
the selected glyph, shifts it over by the advance width, and then adds the
advance width of the character in the clip to this glyph. Essentially this
makes it easy to build up words. (If the font has vertical metrics, then
glyphs will be stacked vertically. If the glyph is right to left then the
clipboard will be added on the left).
This command is not present unless you modify configure-pfaedit.h
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Same Glyph As
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Only available in the fontview. If the clipboard contains a single reference
to a glyph then applying this command makes all selected encoding points
refer to that same glyph. (For example the non-breaking-space character (U+00A0)
frequently uses the same glyph as the space character. To accomplish this,
select the space character, Copy Ref, select the non-breaking-space character
and Same Glyph As).
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Clear
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Similar to Cut except it does not copy anything to the
clipboard.
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Clear Background
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Only in the font view. This command clears the backgrounds of all selected
characters.
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Merge
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This command is only available in the Outline View. If a point on a path
is selected, the the merge command will remove that point from the path and
join the two points around the removed one with a new spline which approximates
the curve between the two before. This command comes in two forms, in the
default case the two surrounding points will retain their slopes (unless
both are corner points), while in the other case (Elide) the slopes will
be lost.
How is this done?
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Join
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This command is not available in the bitmap view. It looks for any paths
with endpoints as the endpoints of other paths and then join those two paths.
Also if the endpoint of a path is the same as the start point it will make
that path into a loop. (The commands that move points around will normally
do this automatically, but Paste will not).
In the Outline view things are slightly more complicated: If any paths have
selected points on them it will only attempt to join those paths.
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Elide
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This is a variant of the Merge command, obtained by holding down the shift
key when bringing down the menu (or by Ctl-Alt-M). Allows the slopes of points
to change.
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Copy Fg To Bg
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This command is only available in the Outline and Font Views. It cleans out
all the splines in the background layer and replaces them with a copy of
all the splines in the foreground layer. Note: Any background images remain.
No references are copied.
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Select
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In the outline view there is a select menu, other views just have Select
All.
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Select All
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In the outline view it selects all points, all references (all images if
the background is active) and the width line (and the vertical width line
if that is enabled). In the fontview it selects all characters. In the bitmap
view it selects the current bitmap region.
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Deselect All
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Deselects anything selected
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First Point
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Deselects everything and then selects the first point on the first path of
the character.
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First Point, Next Contour
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Deselects everything and then selects the first point on the next contour.
(If the last contour is selected then deselects everything).
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Next Point
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Deselects the current point and selects the next point.
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Prev Point
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Deselects the current point and selects the previous point
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Next Control Point
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Selects the "Next Control Point" of the current point.
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Prev Control Point
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Selects the "Prev Control Point" of the current point.
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Contours
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If a contour contains any selected points, then select all points on the
contour.
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Select All Points & Refs
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Just like select all, but it doesn't select anchor points or the width lines.
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Select Anchors
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Select all the Anchor points in the glyph.
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(De)Select Width
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Toggles whether the width line is selected.
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(De)Select VWidth
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(if vertical metrics are enabled) Toggles whether the vertical width line
is selected.
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Select Points Affected by Current HintMask
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if a single point with a hintmask is selected, then this command selects
all points affected by that hintmask.
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Select Color>
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Only in the font view. Displays a submenu containing a list of colors and
allows you to select all characters which you have set to that color with
the Char Info dlg. Normally the selection is cleared before setting the colored
characters, but if you hold down the shift key the selection will be extended
to the colored characters.
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Select By ATT...
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Only in the font view. Brings up a dlg which
allows you to select various characters depending on various advanced typographic
features.
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Find / Replace
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Only in the font view, this brings up a dialog
that allows you to find patterns within characters and replace them with
other patterns.
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Replace With Reference
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Only in the font view, this command will search the font finding any glyph
which contains an inline copy of one of the selected glyphs, and converts
that copy into a reference to the appropriate glyph. In other words it finds
things which should be references and makes them be.
This is primarily for use after reading a postscript (type1, otf or cff)
font. The reference information will usually be lost in these formats, and
this command can find it again.
Suppose the font contains a glyph "Acircumflex" which contains an embedded
copy of "A" (a copy of the contours, not a references), then if you select
"A" and apply this command it will search all glyphs in the font for something
that looks like "A", remove it from any glyphs in which it is found and replace
it with a reference. It applies this same algorithm for all selected glyphs.
If you want to check for every possibility, just select all glyphs first.
After completion, the selection will be set to those characters which have
been changed by the command.
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Unlink Reference
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This will remove a referenced character and replace it with the splines and
points that make it up.
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Copy From
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Only available in the Font View.
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All Fonts
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If this is set then Copy (and Cut and Clear) will copy from the outline font
and from all the bitmap fonts
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Displayed Font
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If this is set then Copy will only copy from the font currently being displayed.
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Char Metadata
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Normally Copy does not copy the metadata (name, unicode encoding, comment,
ligature info) associated with a character, but if this is checked then it
will.
This also controls the behavior of the
Transform and
Build Accented character commands.
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Remove Undoes
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Not available in the Metrics View. This allows you to free up some of the
memory FontForge is currently squandering on keeping track of Undoes (and
Redoes). Obviously this command cannot be undone.
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In the Outline Character view this will free up all undoes/redoes in the
current edit mode
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In the Bitmap Character view this will free up all bitmap undoes/redoes
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In the Font View this will free up all undoes/redoes in all selected characters,
outline and bitmap, background and foreground.