The toolbars give you one-click access to many of the commands on the menus. Some menu items have toolbar icons next to them so that you can quickly associate the command with that icon.

Toolbars

FontCreator’s toolbars can be shown or hidden as needed. By default the Standard, Tools, Drawing, Grid, Glyph, Overview and the Align or Distribute toolbars are docked below the menu bar. Choose Toolbars from the View menu to select toolbars to display or hide, or right-click on any toolbar to get the same submenu. You can also lock the docked toolbars, so that you don’t accidentally move them.

The documents tab bar, listing opened fonts and glyphs, cannot be moved or undocked.

Tips: Toolbars can be rearranged by dragging, docked on the left, right, top, or bottom of the FontCreator window, or made floating. Floating toolbars can also be resized, which will progressively rearrange the icons in them from a horizontal to vertical layout. To undock a docked toolbar, double-click its grab handle where the four-arrow cursor is displayed. To dock it again, double-click the floating toolbar’s title bar.

Panels

The layout of FontCreator can be modified by dragging and docking the panels. The Fonts and Glyphs panels can be closed, while the other panels can be hidden. All panels can be docked, floated, or even tabbed together to your liking. To move a panel, click and hold down the left mouse button on the caption bar of the panel, and start moving your mouse. When you start dragging one of the panels, a cross will appear on the current panel indicating where the panel can be docked. If you hover your mouse over one of the icons, a blue rectangle will show where the panel will be docked. You can also use one of the 4 dock icons that appear on the top, left, right, and bottom of the main window; this will dock the panel across the entire width or height.

Releasing the panel on the center icon will create a set of tabs so that you do not have the panel always visible, but can easily access it by clicking the appropriate tab. To keep a panel floating above the main form simply release your mouse button while not hovering over any of the docking icons.

 

 

The Font Properties, Masters and Layers, Variations, Glyph Properties, Transform, Validation, Preview, Background, Samples, Anchors, Palette, and Members panels can be toggled on/off with shortcut keys Ctrl+F2, Ctrl+F6, Ctrl+F7, F4, F6, F7, F8, F9, F12, Shift+F4, Shift+F2, and Shift+F8 respectively.

Undo

The Undo command from the Edit menu reverses the last action made to the active font. So using Undo returns the font to its state prior to the most recent operation.

Note: The Undo button on the toolbar has a small arrow which allows you to pull down a menu and select multiple actions to be undone.

Redo

The Redo command from the Edit menu re-applies the actions or commands on which you have used the Undo command. FontCreator supports Multiple Redo, which is particularly useful if you have performed the undo command more than you had intended. If this occurs, and you want to re-apply them, either choose the Redo command as many times as necessary or use the drop arrow on the Redo button located on the Standard toolbar.