Documentation

Open a UFO

Open the application and from the file menu choose "open" to import a UFO. Or, drag a UFO file on the application icon in your dock.

When you change and save your UFO in an other application, roundingUFO will notify you to reload the changes.

Selecting

Select a glyph from the glyph list and it will be previewed. With the search box you can select a glyph by typing the name of a glyph.

Applying effect

There are three corner effects in roundingUFO:

  • The first effect converts your corners to round ones.
  • The second adds inktraps to your corners.
  • The last one just cuts off your corners.

    • Corners

    There are two kinds of corners of which you can activate and set the parameters:

  • Black corners: corners inside the glyph.
  • White corners: corners outside the glyph.

    • Additional settings

    The "ignore short segment" slider allows you to ignore segments which are shorter then the slider value. For example, short segments frequently appear in the top of a capital "A".

    For inktraps there is an inktrap lenght slider.

    With the 'display...' drop down menu you can change the preview of the glyph.

    Global vs. Local

    By double clicking on a glyph in the glyph list, you go from Global to Local and vice versa. When Local is applied, you can apply different parameters only to this glyph. Whereas with Global, the same parameters are applied to all "Global" glyphs.

    Storing and loading parameters

    You can store you parameters by hitting 'store'. You tag the parameters with a name and later on you can reuse them by hitting load.

    Generating UFO

    For generating a UFO with the parameters set, go to File->Generate UFO. And you are done. It is advised to check the contours.

    Batch generating

    Just drag and drop your UFO family on top of the list, choose a stored parameter setting and have fun.