Font Background

Use Font Background Font_Background_icon00224.jpg to choose any of the TrueType® and OpenType® fonts installed on your computer as a background for creating a font.

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The selected character in the chosen font and style will be used as the background picture for digitizing. The picture can be moved and sized as desired.

Select a font, and its scale and horizontal and vertical offset. Click OK to select the font as a background.

Font

Click the drop-down arrow at the end of the Font box to choose from any of the TrueType® and OpenType® fonts installed on your computer. The characters are displayed in the selected font.

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Style

Choose from Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. The characters are displayed in the chosen style if it is available for the chosen font.

Scale %

Scale allows a consistent size to be used for the background picture for every character in the font.

Horizontal Offset

The Horizontal Offset moves the background picture of the character along the Baseline.

Vertical Offset

The Vertical Offset adjusts the vertical position of the background picture relative to the Baseline.

New Window

Create or Edit Font

Export As EDO

Save

Exit

Editing Characters

Undo and Redo

Editing Fonts

Universal Properties

Size Options

Multiple Character Copy

Insert Points on Straight Lines

Pictures for Fonts

Line Properties

Fill Properties

Editing a Design