The Hints Menu
This menu is only present in the outline character view and the font view.
In the font view it only contains two entries:
AutoHint and Clear
Hints
A more detailed description of the hinting UI.
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AutoHint
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The Auto Hint command causes PfaEdit to throw away any existing hints for
the character and guess an new ones. In the outline view this operates on
the current character, in the font view it operates on all selected
characters.
PfaEdit will do a better job hinting a font if you have previously set the
BlueValues, StdVW and StdHW fields in
Element->Font Info->PS Private.
These in turn depend on the hints so it is best to autohint the entire font,
then set the above values, and then autohint the font again.
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Clear Hints
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Clears all hints in all selected characters.
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Clear HStem
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Removes all Horizontal Stem hints from the current character.
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Clear VStem
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Removes all Vertical Stem hints.
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Clear DStem
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Removes all Diagonal Stem hints
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Add HHint
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If there are two points selected (exactly two) and if they have different
y positions, then this will create a Horizontal Stem Hint starting at the
lower one of the two going up to the upper one.
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Add VHint
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If there are two points selected (exactly two) and if they have different
x positions, then this will create a Vertical Stem Hint starting at the leftmost
one of the two going right to the rightmost one.
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Add DHint
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If there are exactly two points selected, and if each is connected to a line,
and the two lines are roughly parallel and not horizontal or vertical, then
this will create a diagonal stem hint.
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Create HHint
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Brings up a dialog allowing you to specify exactly where and how wide you
want a Horizontal Stem Hint.
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Create VHint
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Brings up a dialog allowing you to specify exactly where and how wide you
want a Vertical Stem Hint.
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Review
Hints
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Brings up a dialog allowing you to examine (and modify) all horizontal/vertical
stem hints. The currently active hint is picked out in either dark blue or
dark green.
The Minimum Distance SubMenu
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Clear All MD
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Clears all minimum distance hints and all rounding hints in the character.
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Clear Selected x MD
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Clears all x minimum distance hints for which at least one point is
selected.
Also all selected points are marked not rounding in the x direction.
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Clear Selected y MD
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Clears all y minimum distance hints for which at least one point is
selected.
Also all selected points are marked not rounding in the y direction.
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Add x MD / Add MD Here to Width
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If two points are selected creates a minimum distance hint from the first
one to be selected to the second. If one point is selected, creates a minimum
distance hint from that point to the width.
If you attempt to create two minimum distance hints to the same point in
the same direction, PfaEdit will only create the more restrictive of the
two.
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Add y MD
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If two points are selected creates a minimum distance hint from the first
one to be selected to the second.
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Round X
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If checked then all selected points are currently marked to round the x
coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they round the x coordinate to the grid.
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No Round X
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If checked then all selected points are currently marked not to round the
x coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they will not round the x coordinate to the
grid.
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Round Y
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If checked then all selected points are currently marked to round the y
coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they round the y coordinate to the grid.
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No Round Y
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If checked then all selected points are currently marked not to round the
y coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they will not round the y coordinate to the
grid.
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