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Re: How to resize a font?

Use Element > Transform (or command \ ), select "Basepoint" and "Scale
uniformly" then choose a percentage.

I'd select one character and experiment to find the right percentage, then Undo,
select all of the characters and transform them at once.

John




--- In fontographer@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Everson" <everson@...> wrote:
>
> I'm drawing a font in Fontographer, but processing it with FontLab. I have a
font metrics problem, and I am not sure what the right way to fix it is.
>
> The problem is that the font is way too small compared to other fonts.
http://www.evertype.com/fonts/syllabics/Allatuq-sizes-14-14-14.pdf shows my font
(the middle one, Allatuq) alongside two others.
http://www.evertype.com/fonts/syllabics/Allatuq-sizes-14-18-14.pdf shows the
three again, but Allatuq is now set at 18 point.
>
> How can I resize Allatuq correctly?
>





Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:25 pm

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I'm drawing a font in Fontographer, but processing it with FontLab. I have a font metrics problem, and I am not sure what the right way to fix it is. The...
Michael Everson
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Jun 23, 2009
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Use Element > Transform (or command \ ), select "Basepoint" and "Scale uniformly" then choose a percentage. I'd select one character and experiment to find the...
johnroshell
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Jun 24, 2009
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... John, In the end this is what I did... I could not find a good way to do it in FontLab (not any response from the FontLab forum on the query) but...
Michael Everson
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Jun 27, 2009
3:28 pm
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