The place to add and edit glyph specific data such as contours, point, anchors, components, glyph level metrics, guides, image,…
The glyph editor always displays one glyph to edit, and allows the user to show/hide different layers of glyph data.
- Bezier Tool
- Editing Tool
- Slice Tool
- Measurement Tool
- Layers
- Guides
- Display options
- Transform
- Components
- Images
Global actions available for each tool
| Menu bar ⇢ Glyph | |
| Next Glyph | display the next glyph for the selected set in the font collection (the behavior can be changed in the preferences) |
| Prev Glyph | display the next glyph for the selected set in the font collection (the behavior can be changed in the preferences) |
| Editing | selects the editing tool |
| Drawing | selects the drawing tool |
| Slice | selects the slice tool |
| Transform | set the current selection in transform mode, if there is no selection the whole glyph will be in in transform mode. (if a tool does not support transformation it will not be usable) |
| Lock Guides | Locks the guides. |
| Lock Images | Locks the images. |
| Layers | navigate through layers |
| Menu bar ⇢ Windows | |
| Zoom In | zooms in |
| Zoom Out | zooms out |
| Zoom To Fit | zooms the current glyph to fit the glyph view |
| Global Glyph view events (these are valid for all tools) | |
| space click drag | move the glyph view in the scroll view |
| command space click | zooms in |
| command space drag | zoom to marque rectangle |
| command space alt click | zooms out |
| alt mouse scroll | zooms in or out |
| dragging an image (png, jpeg, tiff) | create an image object in the current glyph (there can only be 1 image for each layer) |
| Hot keys (set in the preferences) | |
| Preview | fill the glyph in the foreground color and hide all other display options |
| Zoom In | hot key for zooming in |
| Zoom Out | hot key for zooming out |
| Next Glyph | hot key to display the next glyph for the selected set in the font collection (the behavior can be changed in the preferences) |
| Previous Glyph | hot key to display the previous glyph for the selected set in the font collection (the behavior can be changed in the preferences) |
| Layer Up | hot key for jumping up to an other layer |
| Layer Down | hot key for jumping down to an other layer |
| Jump To Glyph | hot key to a pop up jump to glyph window. Typing the glyph names will sorter the possible glyph names. Also possible to type unicode values. The input field will also trying to convert characters according their unicode value. Arrow keys will alter the selection. |
| Toggle Point Smoothness | hot key to toggle the selected points smoothness |
| Toggle Transform | hot key to toggle transform mode |
| Break Contour | hot key to break the contour at the selected point(s) |
| Toggle Show Fill | hot key to toggle the display fill |
| Toggle Show Metrics | hot key to toggle the display of metrics |
| Toggle Show On Curve Points | hot key to toggle the display of on curve points |
| Toggle Show Off Curve Points | hot key to toggle the display of off curve points |
| Toggle Show Point Coordinates | hot key to toggle the display of point coordinates |
| Toggle Show Point Indexes | hot key to toggle the display of point indexes |
| Toggle Show Anchors | hot key to toggle the display of anchors |
| Toggle Show Labels | hot key to toggle the display of point labels |
| Toggle Show Curve Length | hot key to toggle the display of contour curve length |
| Toggle Show Outline Errors | hot key to toggle the display of outline errors |
| Toggle Show Blues | hot key to toggle the display of blues values |
| Toggle Show Family Blues | hot key to toggle the display of family blues values |
| Toggle Rulers | hot key to toggle the display of rulers |
| Toggle Bitmap | hot key to toggle the display of bitmap representations |
| Flip horizontal | hot key to flip the selection horizontal |
| Flip vertical | hot key to flip the selection vertical |
| Rotate 90° clockwise | hot key to rotate 90° clockwise |
| Rotate 90° counterclockwise | hot key to rotate 90° counterclockwise |
| Rotate 45° clockwise | hot key to rotate 45° clockwise |
| Rotate 45° counterclockwise | hot key to rotate 45° counterclockwise |
| Copy / Swap to layer | hot key to a pop up copy / swap layer window |
| Add Component | hot key to an add (see components) |
| Decompose Component | hot key to decompose components |