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and some of the font metadata stored in OpenType tables. It is
strongly advised to always work on a copy.
11.3.2 Generating Installable Fonts
Choosing File > Export … will bring up the Export dialog.
To generate an OpenType font for use in layout or word
processing applications, pick OTF as export format.
The Use production glyph names option will automatically
rename glyphs of the final font file according to the Adobe
Glyph List. Some applications and systems, e.g., the text
engine of OS X 10.4, expect this naming scheme. Not using
this option may render the font incompatible with such
environments, so uncheck it only if you know what you
are doing.
The Remove overlap option applies the Remove Overlap
filter at export. See section 4.4, ‘Remove Overlap’ (p. 40), for
more details. In a release font, overlaps must be removed. So,
uncheck this only for testing purposes, or if you have already
removed overlaps manually or with a custom parameter.
The Autohint unhinted glyphs option applies the AFDKO
autohinting algorithm to all glyphs that do not have any
manually set hints. This option expects standard stems and
alignment zones to be set correctly (see 8, ‘Hinting’, p. 67).
Currently, the Save as TTF option is only an experimental
implementation, and does not yet produce TrueType fonts
ready for release. TTFs generated this way need to be processed
by a third-party application like FontLab.
The Export destination option allows you to set a default
location the fonts will get exported to. If you do not set a
destination, Glyphs will bring up a save dialog. Be aware that
exporting your font will overwrite any previous instances
with the same name in the same export location. This can be
useful if you use the Adobe Fonts folder as export destination
(see 2.10.7, ‘Previewing in Adobe applications’, p. 32).
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