![]() Use Horizontal Flip and Vertical Flip to flip your glyphs, to judge your glyph shapes and their stroke balance better. You can apply several filters at the same time. Blurred Preview lets you set a specified degree of blur on the glyphs. X-Ray can help you to achieve more balanced spacing and kerning. It allows you to see the visual rhythm of your text more clearly, so stems and counters are immediately visible. The X-Ray Preview offers you a “bird’s eye” view on your text. Inverted Preview lets you preview your glyphs in white on a black background. The panel offers three filters that can be applied to the glyphs you are previewing: Inverted Preview, X-Ray Preview and Blurred Preview. You can left, center or right align the text you are previewing. In the other modes, you can choose from a list of pre-defined sizes. In the Text Waterfall and the Glyph Waterfall modes, you can set the number of steps in the waterfall, as well as the different text sizes within it. Use the Size menu to choose the font size of the displayed text samples. If the “Instance” is selected you can see a preview of the “virtual” instance. When “Active” is selected, the preview of the active master is shown when you switch between layers in the Layers and Masters panel. The Master menu allows you to choose between the active master of a variable font, and an instance. This doesn’t work in the waterfall views though. To open one particular glyph in the Glyph window, you also can Cmd-double-click on it in the Preview panel. This function comes in handy if you want to have your custom text glyphs open for editing in a Glyph window, all at once. To copy the glyphs in the Preview panel to the Glyph window, open the Glyph window and use the button, which is available in the Current, Custom, Context, Clones and Anchors modes. Note that in Context, Glyph Waterfall, Clones and Anchors modes, which focus on a single glyph only, if more than one glyph is selected in the Font Map panel or open in the Glyph window, there is one glyph which is current anyway. Anchors shows all virtual composite glyphs with the current glyph as base.Clones shows all glyphs containing the same element references as the current glyph.Glyph Waterfall displays the current glyph in descending sizes.Context shows the current glyph between the reference characters: Text Waterfall displays custom text (or in its absence, the current glyph(s)) in descending sizes.Custom allows you to type or paste your custom text into the panel.Current shows the current glyph(s) from the Glyph window or glyph(s) selected in the Font window. ![]() The Preview panel allows two kinds of content: Current glyph(s) meaning the glyph(s) that is either currently selected in the Font Map panel or is open in the Glyph Window and Custom text which is text you type or paste into the panel. You can use the Content menu to change how you would like to preview the content in the panel. You can change size, alignment, OpenType features, and more.Ĭlick on the button on the top-right corner of the preview area to open/close the right-side panel, which gives the following options and features for previewing glyphs: Content » It allows you to type in any text, using the current font-or using any font selected in the Fonts panel. ![]() The Preview panel Window > Panels > Preview is a text editor within FontLab VI.
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