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Make sure your Preferences are set to Recognize alphabetic characters Pixels correspond to font units in FontLab, so to get a 700 unit tall “H” in FontLab, paste or import an image that has the H 700 pixels high. The same scaling applies to bitmap (raster) images. You can populate your Pasteboard in Illustrator with your entire set of glyphs and import them all together, if you wish. This means that if you want your uppercase letter “H” to be 700 units high in FontLab, you should make it 700 pt high in Illustrator. By default, font units in FontLab correspond to points in Adobe Illustrator (and other vector drawing applications).

Prepare your artwork in Adobe Illustrator at 700 pt high. Conversely, EPS files exported from FontLab can be opened in Illustrator or in any program that supports AI-compatible EPS files, such as CorelDRAW, ACD Canvas, etc. Adobe Illustrator files needs to be saved in AI 8 or earlier format (AI 3 works great). You can use Adobe Illustrator or compatible applications to draw your glyphs, and then import them into FontLab. But FontLab can accept images in many other formats.įontLab can exchange outline and bitmap data via the Clipboard, and can also import artwork from files.

Bitmap images are usually transferred in png, bmp, tif or gif formats. The most common format for vector data is Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).