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I'm pretty new at working with fontlab, and i have been searching the web for tutorials, the manual is horrible, 'learning fontlab fast' was usefull but lacks depth (and is a complete eyesore). I found some usefull stuff on youtube, but i need more before i can continue.
does anyone know if there are better tutorials that provide a little more depth?
for instance with class kerning and metrics (i'm allergic to code, but this looks doable), is anyone actually using that? Cause it looks like a great way to get the basics right, but i'm not sure if i will be able to undo it without ruining what i did so far.
some help please
4 Feb 2010 — 11:56pm
Here's a nice detailed video tutorial on class kerning: http://www.vimeo.com/681300. I found it useful for myself. The are also some videos on OpenType ligatures on the same Vimeo channel.
"i'm not sure if i will be able to undo it without ruining what i did so far"
In that case just make a copy of your .vfb file and work with that until you're confident to go back to your original file. That's what I do, especially when I'm trialling out something new.
Domenico.
8 Feb 2010 — 3:13am
thanks so much for the help, and the tip of course making a copy is the way to do it, what was i thinking