How To's

This section provides some cases on how to use the RoboFab objects in everyday type design work.

OpenType Features in UFO: How to import, export and work with features in UFO.
Building accents: use RoboFab to build accented glyphs with components.
FontLab Remote: use AppleEvents to control FontLab in Mac OSX
Generate Fonts: how to generate fonts with RoboFab in FontLab.
Glyphnames versus GLIF-names: how to use Robofab's glyph naming schemes for UFO export
How to get to FontLab stuff: the naked methods and attributes
How to interpolate: how to do interpolation with RoboFab objects.
How to make a UFO: export and import UFO's in FontLab
Scripting: simple examples.
The world module: what on earth is it for?
Understanding Contours: how contours, segments and points work.
Using Glyph Math: applying math operators on glyph objects.
Using Pens: playing with pen objects.
Using the lib: make the glyph.lib and font.lib work for you.
Using transformations: matrix transformations in RoboFab

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